HOUSTON, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 16.4 million barrels per day (b/d) during the week ending Sept. 20, 124,000 b/d less than the previous week's average, according to the weekly report issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Wednesday.
Refineries operated at 90.9 percent of their operable capacity last week, said the Weekly Petroleum Data Report.
During the same period, gasoline production went up but distillate fuel production went down, averaging 9.8 million b/d and 4.9 million b/d respectively.
U.S. commercial crude oil inventories, excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, dropped by 4.5 million barrels from the previous week to 413.0 million barrels, about 5.0 percent below the five-year average for this time of year.
Total motor gasoline inventories fell by 1.5 million barrels from the previous week and were about 1.0 percent below the five-year average for this time of year.
Finished gasoline and blending components inventories both decreased last week.
Distillate fuel inventories dropped by 2.2 million barrels last week, about 9.0 percent below the five-year average for this time of year.
Propane/propylene inventories fell by 1.5 million barrels last week, 9.0 percent above the five-year average for this time of year.
Total commercial petroleum inventories declined by 14.6 million barrels last week.
Total products supplied over the last four-week period averaged 20.3 million b/d, down by 1.4 percent from the same period last year.
Over the past four weeks, motor gasoline product supplied averaged 8.8 million b/d, up by 2.1 percent from the same period last year.
Distillate fuel product supplied averaged 3.8 million b/d over the past four weeks, down by 1.3 percent from the same period last year.
Jet fuel product supplied was up 0.2 percent compared with the same four-week period last year. ■