Petroleum Inventory Report For Week Ending February 5

On Friday February 12 the Energy Information Administration reported an increase of 2.42 million barrels in U.S. crude inventories in the week ended Feb.5

Gasoline inventories increased by 2.3 million barrels to 230.4 million barrels

Distillate stocks declined by 356,000 barrels to 156.2 million barrels.

Refining capacity utilization increased by 1.4 percentage points to 79.1%.