EIA....Big Draw U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve)
decreased by 12.6 million barrels from the previous week. At 419.1 million barrels, U.S. crude
oil inventories are about 8% below the five year average for this time of year. Total motor
gasoline inventories increased by 2.8 million barrels from last week and are about 4% below the
five year average for this time of year. Both Finished gasoline and blending components
inventories increased last week. Distillate fuel inventories increased by 3.5 million barrels last
week and are about 11% below the five year average for this time of year. Propane/propylene
inventories increased by 1.6 million barrels from last week and are 13% above the five year
average for this time of year. Total commercial petroleum inventories decreased by 8.8 million
barrels last week.
Total products supplied over the last four-week period averaged 20.5 million barrels a day, down
by 1.1% from the same period last year. Over the past four weeks, motor gasoline product
supplied averaged 8.6 million barrels a day, down by 6.1% from the same period last year.
Distillate fuel product supplied averaged 3.9 million barrels a day over the past four weeks,
down by 9.9% from the same period last year. Jet fuel product supplied was up 3.7% compared