Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
US Gasoline, Distillate Inventories Continue to Fall as Crude Stocks Hold
What the source reported
Source-reportedThe American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States rose by 1.786 million barrels in the week ending September 18. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories grew by a substantial 7.14 million barrels. Commercial crude oil inventories excluding the SPR have lost 39 million barrels over the last 23 weeks, but US crude inventories are up nearly 12 million for the year, according to API data, kept in check by draws from the SPR. For the week ending September 18, another 400,000 barrels left the SPR to…
- Publication
- Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
- Published
- 22nd September 2026
- Original report
- oilprice.com
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- Global
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 23rd September 2026 · 00:13
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
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Initial Significance Moderate (24.0/100). Strongest contributor: Impact-Scale Specificity (7.0/10 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 points). Initial Confidence Low (37.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).
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- Likely Event Severity