U.S. business crude oil inventories, excluding these within the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), elevated by 7.7 million barrels from the week ending July 18 to the week ending July 25, the U.S. Power Data Administration (EIA) highlighted in its newest weekly petroleum standing report.
That report was launched on July 30 and included knowledge for the week ending July 25. It confirmed that crude oil shares, not together with the SPR, stood at 426.7 million barrels on July 25, 419.0 million barrels on July 18, and 433.0 million barrels on July 26, 2024. Crude oil within the SPR stood at 402.7 million barrels on July 25, 402.5 million barrels on July 18, and 375.1 million barrels on July 26, 2024, the report revealed.
Complete petroleum shares – together with crude oil, whole motor gasoline, gasoline ethanol, kerosene sort jet gasoline, distillate gasoline oil, residual gasoline oil, propane/propylene, and different oils – stood at 1.660 billion barrels on July 25, the report highlighted. Complete petroleum shares had been up 7.3 million barrels week on week and down 3.6 million barrels 12 months on 12 months, the report confirmed.
“At 426.7 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are about six p.c under the 5 12 months common for this time of 12 months,” the EIA stated in its newest weekly petroleum standing report.
“Complete motor gasoline inventories decreased by 2.7 million barrels from final week and are about one p.c under the 5 12 months common for this time of 12 months. Completed gasoline inventories elevated, whereas mixing parts inventories decreased final week,” it added.
“Distillate gasoline inventories elevated by 3.6 million barrels final week and are about 16 p.c under the 5 12 months common for this time of 12 months. Propane/ propylene inventories elevated by 1.1 million barrels from final week and are 9 p.c above the 5 12 months common for this time of 12 months,” it continued.
U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 16.9 million barrels per day throughout the week ending July 25, in accordance with the report, which highlighted that this was 25,000 barrels per day lower than the earlier week’s common.
“Refineries operated at 95.4 p.c of their operable capability final week,” the EIA stated in its report.
“Gasoline manufacturing elevated final week, averaging 10.0 million barrels per day. Distillate gasoline manufacturing elevated by 131,000 barrels per day final week, averaging 5.2 million barrels per day,” it added.
U.S. crude oil imports averaged 6.1 million barrels per day final week, the report famous. It identified that this was a rise of 159,000 barrels per day from the earlier week.
“Over the previous 4 weeks, crude oil imports averaged about 6.1 million barrels per day, 11.3 p.c lower than the identical four-week interval final 12 months,” the EIA stated within the report.
“Complete motor gasoline imports (together with each completed gasoline and gasoline mixing parts) final week averaged 691,000 barrels per day, and distillate gasoline imports averaged 229,000 barrels per day,” it added.
Complete merchandise equipped over the past four-week interval averaged 20.8 million barrels a day, up by 1.5 p.c from the identical interval final 12 months, the EIA said in its report.
“Over the previous 4 weeks, motor gasoline product equipped averaged 8.9 million barrels a day, down by 3.0 p.c from the identical interval final 12 months,” it stated.
“Distillate gasoline product equipped averaged 3.5 million barrels a day over the previous 4 weeks, down by 4.1 p.c from the identical interval final 12 months. Jet gasoline product equipped was up 8.8 p.c in contrast with the identical four-week interval final 12 months,” it went on to notice.
In an oil and gasoline report despatched to Rigzone by the Macquarie workforce late Monday, Macquarie strategists, together with Walt Chancellor, revealed that they had been forecasting that U.S. crude inventories can be up by 4.7 million barrels for the week ending July 25.
“This follows a 3.2 million barrel draw within the prior week, with the crude stability realizing looser than our expectations,” the strategists stated in that report.
In a weekly petroleum standing report launched on July 23, which confirmed knowledge for the week ending July 18, the EIA highlighted that U.S. business crude oil inventories, excluding these within the SPR, decreased by 3.2 million barrels from the week ending July 11 to the week ending July 18.
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