Feb 15 (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil and gasoline
inventories soared last week, while distillate stockpiles fell,
the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.
Crude inventories rose by 16.3 million barrels
in the week to Feb. 10 to 471.4 million barrels, compared with
analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 1.2
million-barrel rise.
Crude stocks at the Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery hub for
futures rose by 659,000 barrels last week, the EIA
said.
Refinery crude runs fell by 383,000 barrels per
day, and refinery utilization rates fell by 1.4
percentage points in the week.
U.S. gasoline stocks rose by 2.3 million
barrels to 241.9 million barrels, the EIA said, compared with
analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 1.5
million-barrel rise.?
Distillate stockpiles , which include diesel and
heating oil, fell by 1.3 million barrels to 119.2 million
barrels, versus expectations for a 400,000-barrel rise.
Net U.S. crude imports fell by 1.07 million
bpd, the EIA said.
(Reporting by Laura Sanicola
Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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