U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 5.4 million barrels from the previous week. • U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged over 17.7 million barrels per day during the week ending August 25, 2017, 264,000 barrels per day more than the previous week’s average. • Refineries operated at 96.6% of their operable capacity last week. • Gasoline production increased last week, averaging 10.6 million barrels per day. Distillate fuel production decreased last week, averaging about 5.1 million barrels per day.
