U.S. commercial crude stocks for the last week fell by 1.7 mln barrels - EIA official data

/IRBIS, June 23, 2011/ - Energy Information Administration (EIA) under U.S. Department of Energy published a report according to which the oil reserves in the U.S. for the week that ended June 17, 2011, decreased by 1.711 million barrels to 363.844 million Gasoline inventories fell by 464 thousand barrels to 214.601 million, and distillate stocks - rose by 1.173 million barrels to 141.994 million Earlier, the American Petroleum Institute (API) published its report, which stated that during this period, commercial U.S. crude stocks fell by 81 thousand barrels to 362.951 million Gasoline inventories fell by 1.516 million barrels to 211.935 million, while distillate stocks - by 541 thousand barrels to 143.169 million [2011-06-23]