April 19 (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil and distillate
inventories fell last week while gasoline inventories rose
unexpectedly, the Energy Information Administration said on
Wednesday.
Crude inventories fell by 4.6 million barrels
in the week to April 7 to 466 million barrels, more than
quadruple analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 1.1
million-barrel drop.
Crude stocks at the Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery hub fell by 1.1 million barrels last week, the EIA
said.
Refinery crude runs rose by 259,000 barrels per
day, and refinery utilization rates rose by 1.7
percentage points to 91% of total capacity.
U.S. gasoline stocks rose by 1.3 million
barrels in the week to 223.5 million barrels, the EIA said,
compared with analysts' forecasts for a 1.3 million-barrel
drop.?
Distillate stockpiles , which include diesel and
heating oil, fell by 400,000 barrels in the week to 112.1
million barrels, versus expectations for a 900,000-barrel drop,
the EIA data showed.
Net U.S. crude imports fell by 1.74 million
bpd, EIA said.
(Reporting by Laura Sanicola
Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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