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Thursday, April 27, 2006

Weekly Petroleum Status Report
For the Week ended April 21st







Crude Oil Stocks down 200,000 Barrels from last week. Inventories now at 345.0 million Barrels.











Crude Oil Production was 5.127 million barrels per day. This is an increase of 20,000 barrels a day from last week.










Crude oil imports were at 9.864 million barrels per day. Imports this week were 19,900 barrels per higher than last week.










Crude Oil refinery inputs were 15.064 million barrels per day. This is 34,300 barrels per day higher than last week.











Gasoline stocks were 200.6 million barrels. This is 1.9 million barrels lower than last week.












Gasoline demand was 9.012 million barrels per day. This is a decrease of 88,000 barrels per day from the previous week. This is 288,000 barrels per day below last year's demand.









U.S. finished gasoline production was 8.47 million barrels per day. This was 38,000 barrels per day higher than last week but 40,000 lower than year ago levels.









U.S. total gasoline imports was 1.338 million barrels per day. This was 43,000 barrels per day higher than last week but only 26,000 barrels per day higher than last year.