Commercial oil reserves in the US decreased by 4.306 million barrels last week.
Modern.az reports that the US Department of Energy released information about this.
Gasoline reserves decreased by 4.08 million barrels this week, while other oil product reserves increased by 190 thousand barrels.
Analysts had predicted, on average, a decrease of 2.1 million barrels in crude oil reserves and approximately 2.85 million barrels in gasoline and oil product reserves.
Reserves at the Cushing terminal, where crude oil traded on NYMEX is stored, decreased by 1.7 million barrels after a decrease of 648 thousand barrels the previous week.
