US Crude Oil, Gasoline Inventories Still Falling

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States fell by 564,000 barrels in the week ending July 10. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories fell by 399,000 barrels. Although commercial crude oil inventories excluding the SPR have been falling rapidly for three months now, shedding just over 60 million barrels over the last twelve weeks, US crude inventories are only down 9.2 million barrels so far this year, according to API data, kept in check by draws from the SPR. For the week ending July…