The USA announced that it would use its reserves to balance the rise in oil prices and called on some countries to follow the same method.
The USA Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced that commercial crude oil stocks in the country decreased by 4 million 600 thousand barrels, corresponding to 1.1 percent last week, to approximately 428 million 300 thousand barrels. The market expectation was that inventories would decrease by 2 million 600 thousand barrels.
Strategic crude oil stocks, which are not included in commercial crude oil stocks, decreased by 2 million barrels (0.3 percent) to 598 million 900 thousand barrels.
In the said period, the USA gasoline stocks decreased by 700 thousand barrels (0.3 percent) to 218 million 600 thousand barrels.
The USA's crude oil imports decreased by an average of 28 thousand barrels per day compared to the previous week and became 6 million 471 thousand barrels, while exports increased by an average of 1 million 375 thousand barrels per day to 3 million 645 thousand barrels.
The country's daily crude oil production, on the other hand, decreased by 5 thousand barrels in the week of 4-10 December and became approximately 12 million 149 thousand barrels.
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