Distillate fuel stocks held inprimary storage fell by 8.8 mln barrels in the week ended March
six to 119.6 mln barrels, the Energy Information Administration
(EIA) said.
    In its weekly petroleum status report, the Department of
Energy agency said gasoline stocks were off 500,000 barrels in
the week to 251.0 mln barrels and refinery crude oil stocks
fell 1.2 mln barrels to 331.8 mln.
    The EIA said residual fuel stocks fell 1.5 mln barrels to
36.4 mln barrels and crude oil stocks in the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve (SPR) rose 200,000 barrels to 516.7 mln.
    The total of all crude, refined product and SPR stocks fell
10.3 mln barrels to 1,564.8, it said.
 Reuter
