EIA: US commercial crude oil inventories increased by 1.9 mln barrels

Eren Sengezer FXStreet

Key highlights from the EIA's report's summary of weekly petroleum data for the week ending November 10, 2017.

U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged over 16.6 million barrels per day during the week ending November 10, 2017, 334,000 barrels per day more than the previous week’s average.

U.S. crude oil imports averaged 7.9 million barrels per day last week, up by 521,000 barrels per day from the previous week.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) increased by 1.9 million barrels from the previous week.

Total products supplied over the last four-week period averaged about 20.1 million barrels per day, up by 0.5% from the same period last year.

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