Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
US Crude Oil Inventories See Massive Drop Off
What the source reported
Source-reportedThe American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States fell by a massive 11.12 million barrels in the week ending October 9. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories fell by 2.09 million barrels. Commercial crude oil inventories excluding the SPR have lost more than 51 million barrels over the last 26 weeks, but US crude inventories are at roughly the same level as they were at the beginning of the year, according to API data, kept in check in part thanks to draws from the SPR. For the week ending October…
- Publication
- Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
- Published
- 14th October 2026
- Original report
- oilprice.com
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- Global
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 15th October 2026 · 01:47
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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- Impact-Scale Specificity
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- Likely Event Severity