U.S. crude stocks last week rose 2.1 million barrels - official EIA data

/IRBIS, March 24, 2011/ - Energy Information Administration (EIA) of U.S. Department of Energy published a report that the oil reserves in the U.S. for the week that ended March 18, 2011, increased by 2.131 million barrels to 352.767 million. Gasoline inventories declined by 5.320 million barrels to 219.720 million, while distillate inventories increased by 7.0 million barrels to 152.615 million. Earlier, the American Petroleum Institute (API) published its report, where it was stated that during the period, 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. [2011-03-24]