U.S. commercial crude stock for the past week decreased by 4.7 million barrels - EIA official data

/IRBIS, October 20, 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 ended October 14, 2011, decreased by 4.729 million barrels to 332.899 million. Gasoline inventories also declined by 3.324 million barrels to 206.271 million and distillate inventories - by 4.266 million barrels to 149.739 million. Earlier, the American Petroleum Institute (API) published its report, which stated that during the period under commercial U.S. crude stocks fell by 3.126 million barrels to 337.298 million and gasoline stocks - by 1.642 million barrels to 209.564 million, stocks of distillates - by 2.194 million barrels to 149.706 million [2011-10-20]