HOUSTON, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 15.8 million barrels per day (b/d) during the week ending Sept. 23, 604,000 b/d less than the previous week's average, according to the weekly report issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Wednesday.
Refineries operated at 90.6 percent of their operable capacity last week, compared with 90.9 percent in the previous week, said the Weekly Petroleum Data report.
During the same period, gasoline production rose and distillate fuel production fell, averaging 9.6 million b/d and 5 million b/d respectively.
U.S. commercial crude oil inventories, excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, declined by 0.2 million barrels from the previous week to 430.6 million barrels, about 2 percent below the five year average for this time of year.
Total motor gasoline inventories went down by 2.4 million barrels from last week, some 6 percent below the five year average for this time of year. Finished gasoline inventories increased but blending components inventories decreased last week.
Distillate fuel inventories decreased by 2.9 million barrels last week, about 20 percent below the five year average for this time of year.
Propane/propylene inventories increased by 1.6 million barrels from last week, about 2 percent below the five year average for this time of year. Total commercial petroleum inventories fell by 8.9 million barrels last week.
Total products supplied over the last four week period averaged 19.7 million b/d, down by 3.1 percent from the same period last year.
Over the past four weeks, motor gasoline product supplied averaged 8.6 million b/d, down by 6.6 percent from the same period last year.
Distillate fuel product supplied averaged 3.6 million b/d over the past four weeks, down by 9.7 percent from the same period last year. Jet fuel product supplied was up 2.6 percent compared with the same four week period last year.
