U.S. commercial crude stocks for the past week increased by 2.3 million barrels - API

/IRBIS, July 13, 2011/ - The American Petroleum Institute (API) published a report according to which the week ended July 8, 2011, commercial U.S. crude stocks rose by 2.341 million barrels to 359.421 million. Gasoline inventories fell by 1.577 million barrels to 208.353 million, and distillate stocks - rose by 4.754 million barrels to 145.353 million. The American Petroleum Institute is a national non-governmental organization dedicated to research all aspects and provides activities to regulate matters in the oil and gas industry. Today a report of Energy Information Administration (EIA) under U.S. Department of Energy will be published. According to the previous report, U.S. crude stocks for the week ended July 1, 2011, decreased by 889 thousand barrels to 358.580 million. Gasoline inventories fell by 634 thousand barrels to 212.539 million, while distillate stocks - by 191 thousand barrels to 142.061 million [2011-07-13]