Commercial U.S. crude stock last week fell by 5.5 million barrels - API

/IRBIS, June 8, 2011/ - American Petroleum Institute (API) published a report according to which for the week ended June 3, 2011, commercial U.S. crude stocks fell by 5.512 million barrels to 366.061 million. Gasoline stocks fell by 390 thousand barrels to 212.325 million, and stocks of distillate - rose by 1.774 million barrels to 144.136. American Petroleum Institute is a national non-governmental organization dedicated to research all aspects of operations and provides management issues in the oil and gas industry. Today the publication of the report of Energy Information Administration (EIA) under U.S. Department of Energy is expected. According to the previous report, U.S. crude stocks for the week ended May 27, 2011, increased by 2.878 million barrels to 373.806 million. Gasoline inventories rose by 2.553 million barrels to 212.283 million, while distillate inventories - decreased by 976 thousand barrels up to 140.116 million [2011-06-08]