Analysts attributed the major decline in the Canadian gas rig count to the very low gas prices on the Canadian natural gas spot market. The natural gas producers prefer curtailing their production rather than increasing it in the current depressed market.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported on Wednesday that U.S. commercial crude oil inventories, excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), decreased by 5.8 million barrels during the week ending Aug. 17. In the previous week, EIA reported a build of 6.8 million barrels.
According to EIA, U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 17.89 million barrels per day during the week ending Aug. 17 which was 89,000 per day lower than the previous week's average.
U.S. crude oil imports averaged 7.51 million barrels per day, 1.49 million barrels per day lower than the previous week's average. Over the past four weeks, crude oil imports averaged 8.05 million barrels per day, 2.2 percent lower than the same four-week period last year.
U.S. crude oil exports averaged 1.15 million barrels per day, 437,000 barrels per day lower than the previous week's average. Over the past four weeks, crude oil imports averaged 1.47 million barrels per day.
Total motor gasoline inventories increased by 1.2 million barrels, about 1.9 percent above the levels of the same week last year.
Distillate fuel inventories increased by 1.8 million barrels, 11.8 percent below the levels of the same week last year. Total commercial petroleum inventories decreased by 2.5 million barrels.
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