Crude oil in the SPR came in at 402.7 million barrels on July 11, 403.0 million barrels on July 4, and 373.7 million barrels on July 12, 2024, the EIA report revealed. Total petroleum stocks – including crude oil, total motor gasoline, fuel ethanol, kerosene type jet fuel, distillate fuel oil, residual fuel oil, propane/propylene, and other oils – stood at 1.658 billion barrels on July 11, the report highlighted. Total petroleum stocks were up 9.0 million barrels week on week and down 11.2 million barrels year on year, the report showed.
n its latest weekly petroleum status report at the time of writing, which was released on March 12 and included data for the week ending March 7, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) highlighted that U.S. commercial crude oil inventories, excluding those in the SPR, increased by 1.4 million barrels from the week ending February 28 to the week ending March 7.
The Macquarie strategists highlighted in the report that, last week, the EIA “reported builds in commercial crude (+4.1 million barrels) and at Cushing (+0.9 million barrels), with mixed product stats (gasoline -3.0 million barrels, distillate +0.1 million barrels, jet +0.9 million barrels)”.
In an oil and gas report sent to Rigzone by the Macquarie team late Monday, Macquarie strategists revealed that they are forecasting that U.S. crude inventories will be up by 10.8 million barrels for the week ending January 31.