Commercial U.S. crude stocks last week rose by 970 thousand barrels - API

/IRBIS, March 24, 2011/ - The American Petroleum Institute (API) published a report according to which for the week ended March 18, 2011, commercial U.S. crude stocks rose by 970 thousand barrels to 350.753 million Gasoline stocks fell by 7 883.0 thousand barrels to 222.364 million, while distillate stocks by 612.0 thousand barrels to 155.032 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 March 11, 2011, increased by 1.745 million barrels to 350.636 million. Gasoline inventories declined by 4.174 million barrels to 225.040 million, while distillate inventories - at 2.601 million barrels to 152.608 million. [2011-03-24]