BIG 3 CONTINUE DRAWDOWN
April 20 (Reuters) - U.S. crude stocks, gasoline and distillate inventories fell last week, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday. Crude inventories (USOILC=ECI) fell by 8 million barrels in the week ended April 15 to 413.7 million barrels, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 2.5 million-barrel rise. Crude stocks at the Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery hub (USOICC=ECI) fell by 185,000 barrels in the last week, EIA said. Report ad Refinery crude runs (USOICR=ECI) rose by 194,000 barrels per day in the last week, EIA said. Refinery utilization rates (USOIRU=ECI) rose by 1 percentage points in the week. U.S. gasoline stocks (USOILG=ECI) fell by 761,000 barrels in the week to 232.4 million barrels, the EIA said, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 1 million-barrel drop. Distillate stockpiles (USOILD=ECI), which include diesel and heating oil, fell by 2.7 million barrels in the week to 108.7 million barrels, versus expectations for an 829,000-barrel drop, the EIA data showed. Report ad Net U.S. crude imports (USOICI=ECI) fell by 2.25 million barrels per day, EIA said.