Commercial oil inventories in the USA decreased by 11,473 thousand barrels after four weeks of increase and stood at 420,942 thousand barrels, APA-Economics reports citing the report published by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) under the US Department of Energy.
According to the information, analysts had previously predicted that US commercial oil inventories would decrease by 2,300 thousand barrels.
Note that information about US oil reserves significantly affects the price of "black gold" in the world market.