Saturday, February 22, 2025

U.S. crude oil inventories increase by 4.6 million barrels

Weekly Crude Oil Storage as of February 14, 2025

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) increased by 4.6 million barrels from the previous week.  At 432.5 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are 3% below the five-year average for this time of year, according to the EIA crude oil and petroleum weekly storage data, reporting inventories as of February 14, 2025.

Summary of weekly petroleum data for the week ending February 14, 2025

U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 15.4 million barrels per day during the week ending February 14, 2025, which was 15 thousand barrels per day less than the previous week’s average. Refineries operated at 84.9% of their operable capacity last week.

  • Gasoline production decreased last week, averaging 9.2 million barrels per day.
  • Distillate fuel production decreased last week, averaging 4.7 million barrels per day.

Imports

U.S. crude oil imports averaged 5.8 million barrels per day last week, decreased by 488 barrels per day from the previous week. Over the past four weeks, crude oil imports averaged about 6.4 million barrels per day,0.6% less than the same four-week period last year.

Total motor gasoline imports (including both finished gasoline and gasoline blending components) last week averaged 346 thousand barrels per day, and distillate fuel imports averaged 267 thousand barrels per day.

Products inventories

  • Total motor gasoline inventories decreased by 0.2 million barrels from last week and are 1% below the five year average for this time of year.
  • Finished gasoline inventories increased while and blending components inventories decreased last week.
  • Distillate fuel inventories increased by 2.1million barrels last week and are about 12% below the five year average for this time of year.
  • Propane/propylene inventories decreased by 3.6 million barrels from last week and are slightly below the five year average for this time of year.
  • Total commercial petroleum inventories increased by 0.2 million barrels last week.

Products supplied

Total products supplied over the last four-week period averaged 20.4 million barrels per day, up by 3.7% from the same period last year. Over the past four weeks:

  • Motor gasoline product supplied averaged 8.4 million barrels per day, up by 0.4% from the same period last year.
  • Distillate fuel product supplied averaged 4.3 million barrels per day over the past four weeks, up by 14.2% with the same period last year.
  • Jet fuel product supplied was up 4.3% compared with the same four-week period last year.

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