Commercial U.S. crude stocks last week fell by 7.5 million barrels - API

/IRBIS, January 5, 2011/ - The American Petroleum Institute (API) published a report according to which for the week ended Dec. 31, 2010, commercial U.S. crude stocks fell by 7.511 million barrels to 337.057 million Gasoline inventories rose by 5.612 million barrels to 221.986 million, while distillate inventories - at 2.162 million barrels to 164.943 million. American Petroleum Institute - a national non-governmental organization dedicated to research all aspects of operations and provides management issues in the oil and gas industry. Today is expected to publish a report Energy Information Administration (EIA) U.S. Department of Energy. According to the previous report, U.S. crude stocks for the week ended Dec. 24, 2010, decreased by 1.258 million barrels to 339.427 million Gasoline inventories declined by 2.316 million barrels to 214.857 million, while distillate stocks rose by 243 thousand barrels to 160.959 million. [2011-01-05]