API SAYS DISTILLATE, GASOLINE STOCKS UP IN WEEK

  Distillate fuel stocks held in
  primary storage rose by 628,000 barrels in the week ended April
  three to 106.96 mln barrels from a revised 106.33 mln the
  previous week, the American Petroleum Institute said.
      In its weekly statistical bulletin, the oil industry trade
  group said gasoline stocks rose 2.29 mln barrels to 247.91 mln
  barrels from a revised 245.62 mln, and crude oil stocks were up
  8.52 mln barrels to 337.73 mln from a revised 329.21 mln.
      It said residual fuel stocks rose 28,000 barrels to 38.25
  mln from a revised 37.98 mln barrels.
      API said refinery runs in the week rose to 12.54 mln
  barrels per day from 12.21 mln and refinery use of operating
  capacity was 80.4 pct, up from 78.3 pct.
      Crude oil imports in the week fell to 3.40 mln bpd from a
  revised 3.60 mln, API added.
  

