Crude oil inventories in the United States during the past week decreased by 3.1 million barrels.
According to Reuters news agency, the American Petroleum Institute data showed an unexpected drop in oil inventories in the week ending April 12, when crude inventories fell to 452.7 million barrels, Compared with analysts' expectations for an increase of 1.7 million barrels.
Crude stocks at the delivery center in Cushing, Oklahoma, also fell by 1.6 million barrels.
Gasoline stocks fell 3.6 million barrels, compared to analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll that 2.1 million barrels will fall.
The institute's data showed that distillate stocks, which include diesel and heating oil, rose by 2.3 million barrels, compared to expectations for a drop of 846 thousand barrels.
The Institute of Petroleum data indicated that the rates of consumption of refineries from crude increased by 35 thousand barrels per day.
US imports of crude fell last week by 594 thousand barrels per day to 6.6 million barrels per day.
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