Commercial U.S. crude stocks last week rose 3.8 million barrels - API

/IRBIS, March 9, 2011/ - The American Petroleum Institute (API) published a report according to which for the week ended March 4, 2011, commercial U.S. crude stocks rose by 3.820 million barrels to 348.528 million. Gasoline inventories declined by 3.743 million barrels to 230.705 million, while distillate inventories - at 1.473 million barrels to 156.113 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 February 25, 2011 decreased by 364 thousand barrels to 346.375 million Gasoline inventories declined by 3.590 million barrels to 234.708 million, while distillate inventories - at 1.751 million barrels to 159.186 million KZT. [2011-03-09]