EIA: US commercial crude oil inventories increased by 5.9 mln barrels

Eren Sengezer FXStreet

Key highlights from the EIA's report's summary of weekly petroleum data for the week ending September 8, 2017:

U.S. commercial crude oil inventoriesincreased by 5.9 million barrels from the previous week.
U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 14.1 million barrels per day during the week ending September 8, 2017, 394,000 barrels per day less than the previous week’s average.
U.S. crude oil imports averaged 6.5 million barrels per day last week, down by 603,000 barrels per day from the previous week.
Total products supplied over the last four-week period averaged over 20.4 million barrels per day, down by 0.8% from the same period last year.

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