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AP
Oil, Gasoline Inventories Fell Last Week
Wednesday October 24, 10:50 am ET
Oil and Gasoline Inventories Take a Surprising Drop
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Inventories of crude-oil and gasoline fell last week, according to a government report released Wednesday that surprised analysts.
For the week ending Oct. 19, crude oil inventories fell by 5.3 million barrels to 316.6 million barrels, which is 5.9 percent below year-ago levels, the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report.
Analysts surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires expected crude stocks to grow by 300,000 barrels.
Stockpiles of gasoline fell by 2 million barrels, or 1 percent, to 193.8 million barrels and remained 7.1 percent below year-ago levels. Analysts, on average, expected inventories of the motor fuel to rise by 1.1 million barrels.
Demand for gasoline over the four weeks ending Oct. 19 was 0.2 percent lower than a year earlier, averaging more than 9.2 million barrels a day.
U.S. refineries also lowered their production by 0.2 percentage point, running at 87.1 percent of their total capacity on average. Analysts expected production to rise by 0.3 percentage point last week.
Inventories of distillate fuel, which include diesel and heating oil, fell by 1.8 million barrels to 134.5 million barrels. Analysts expected a gain of 200,000 barrels.
At the pump, gas prices rose slightly overnight but remained at a national average of about $2.82 a gallon for regular-grade gasoline, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. Retail gas prices are down from a May 24 peak of $3.23 per gallon, but are about 28 percent ahead of pump prices a year ago.
Light, sweet crude for December delivery rose $1.47 to $86.74 on the New York Mercantile Exchange in morning trading.