API SAYS DISTILLATE, GAS STOCKS OFF IN WEEK

  Distillate fuel stocks held in
  primary storage fell by 7.35 mln barrels in the week ended
  March 13 to 112.74 mln barrels from a revised 120.09 mln the
  previous week, the American Petroleum Institute (API) said.
      In its weekly statistical bulletin, the oil industry trade
  group said gasoline stocks fell 2.89 mln barrels to 248.44 mln
  barrels from a revised 251.33 mln, and crude oil stocks dropped
  4.39 mln barrels to 325.13 mln from a revised 329.52 mln.
      It said residual fuel stocks fell 250,000 barrels to 35.73
  mln from 35.98 mln barrels.
      API said refinery runs in the week rose to 11.80 mln
  barrels per day (bpd) from a revised 11.70 mln and refinery use
  of operating capacity was 75.7 pct, up from a revised 75.0 pct.
      Crude oil imports in the week rose to 3.66 mln bpd from a
  revised 2.67 mln, API added.
  

