HOUSTON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 15.5 million barrels per day (b/d) during the week ending Jan. 17, 1.125 million b/d less than the previous week's average, according to a weekly report issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Thursday.
Refineries operated at 85.9 percent of their operable capacity last week, said the Weekly Petroleum Data Report.
During the period, gasoline and distillate fuel production went down, averaging 9.2 million b/d and 4.7 million b/d respectively.
U.S. commercial crude oil inventories, excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, dropped by 1.0 million barrels from the previous week to 411.7 million barrels, about 6 percent below the five-year average for this time of year.
Total motor gasoline inventories surged by 2.3 million barrels from the previous week and were some 1 percent below the five-year average for this time of year.
Finished gasoline inventories and blending components inventories increased last week.
Distillate fuel inventories declined by 3.1 million barrels last week, about 6.0 percent below the five-year average for this time of year.
Propane/propylene inventories fell by 3.7 million barrels last week, about 8 percent above the five-year average for this time of year.
Total commercial petroleum inventories decreased by 4.1 million barrels last week.
Total products supplied over the last four-week period averaged 19.7 million b/d, up by 0.7 percent from the same period last year.
Over the past four weeks, motor gasoline product supplied averaged 8.3 million b/d, up by 1.9 percent from the same period last year.
Distillate fuel product supplied averaged 3.6 million b/d over the past four weeks, up by 6.2 percent from the same period last year.
Jet fuel product supplied was up 8.9 percent compared with the same four-week period last year. ■
