{"id":773751,"date":"2026-07-01T17:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773751\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:40:16","slug":"eia-u-s-crude-inventories-post-another-major-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773751\/","title":{"rendered":"EIA: U.S. Crude Inventories Post Another Major Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy <a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/contributors\/Julianne-Geiger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julianne Geiger<\/a> &#8211; Jul 01, 2026, 9:47 AM CDT<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d32r1sh890xpii.cloudfront.net\/article\/718x300\/2026-07-01_uc73febwiv.jpg\" class=\"singleArticle__articleImage\" alt=\"Crude oil pipeline infrastructure in Iraq\" title=\"Crude oil pipeline infrastructure in Iraq\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Crude oil inventories in the United States decreased by 3.8 million barrels during the week ending June 26, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. The decrease brings commercial stockpiles to 408.4 million barrels, according to government data, which is now 7% below the five-year average for this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>The EIA\u2019s data release follows API\u2019s figures that were released a day earlier, which reported that crude oil inventories saw a draw of <a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Latest-Energy-News\/World-News\/US-Crude-Oil-Inventories-Keep-Falling-As-Hormuz-Flows-Slow-To-Start.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6.072 million<\/a> barrels in the period.<\/p>\n<p>Crude futures were down in mid-morning trading. At 10:15 a.m. in New York,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/futures\/brent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brent<\/a>\u00a0futures were trading at $72.06 per barrel\u2014down $0.89 (-1.19%) on the day and down roughly $1.30 per barrel from this same time last week. <a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/futures\/wti\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTI<\/a> was also trading down on the day, by $0.53 per barrel (-0.76%) on Wednesday morning at $68.97.<\/p>\n<p>For total motor gasoline, the EIA reported that inventories had increased by 2.3 million barrels, compared to the week prior\u2019s 2.1 million barrel build. The most recent figures showed that average daily gasoline production increased to 10.0 million barrels. For middle distillates, inventories increased by 2.5 million barrels with production decreasing to an average of 5.2 million barrels daily. Distillate inventories are now 8% below the five-year average.<\/p>\n<p>Total products supplied\u2014a proxy for U.S. oil demand\u2014averaged 20.6 million barrels per day over the last four weeks, up 1.7% compared to the same period last year. Gasoline demand averaged 9.0 million barrels per day over the last four weeks, while the distillate four-week average supplied averaged 3.7 million barrels\u2014down 1.9% year over year.<\/p>\n<p>By Julianne Geiger for Oilprice.com<\/p>\n<p>More Top Reads From Oilprice.com<a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Latest-Energy-News\/World-News\/The-Iran-War-Has-Upended-Global-LNG-Markets.html\" data-embargo=\"1774512000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDownload The Free Oilprice App Today<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/in\/app\/oilprice\/id1389772617?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Download Oilprice.com on Apple\" style=\"height: 50px;\" width=\"169\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/d1o9e4un86hhpc.cloudfront.net\/a\/img\/cl\/app\/appstoredownload.svg\" class=\"lozad\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=oilprice.android.app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Download Oilprice.com on Android\" style=\"height: 50px;\" width=\"169\" height=\"50\" class=\"lozad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/androidbutton.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Back to homepage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Julianne Geiger &#8211; Jul 01, 2026, 9:47 AM CDT Crude oil inventories in the United States decreased&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,15996,274593,202944,3241,19107,172000,182],"class_list":["post-773751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crude","tag-cushing","tag-iran-war","tag-oil","tag-oil-inventories","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}