{"id":438664,"date":"2026-09-23T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-crude-inventories-rise-2-969-million-barrels-vs-641000-barrel-draw-expected-438664\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:00:17","slug":"us-crude-inventories-rise-2-969-million-barrels-vs-641000-barrel-draw-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-crude-inventories-rise-2-969-million-barrels-vs-641000-barrel-draw-expected-438664\/","title":{"rendered":"US crude inventories rise 2.969 million barrels vs 641,000-barrel draw expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Crude oil stocks:+2.969 million barrels vs \u22120.641 million expected. Prior \u22120.640 million.\n<\/li>\n<li>Cushing crude stocks:+2.266 million barrels. Prior \u22120.342 million.\n<\/li>\n<li>Gasoline stocks:\u22121.686 million barrels vs +0.093 million expected. Prior +0.794 million.\n<\/li>\n<li>Distillate stocks:\u22120.428 million barrels vs \u22120.633 million expected. Prior +1.585 million.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The headline is the crude build. Traders were looking for a modest draw, but stocks instead rose by nearly 3 million barrels\u2014a swing of about 3.6 million barrels from expectations. Stocks at Cushing, Oklahoma, also increased sharply.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The gasoline draw tells a different story. Gasoline inventories fell when a small build was expected. Distillates declined too, although their draw was slightly smaller than forecast. The four figures make this a mixed report, with the crude and Cushing builds the clearest bearish surprises for oil.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The private data released late yesterday showed:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Quick analysis: The crude build could weigh on oil prices, while the larger-than-expected gasoline draw may offer some offset. Cushing matters because it is the delivery hub for West Texas Intermediate crude futures. The figures alone do not establish what caused the inventory changes or how oil prices reacted.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">What this report measures: The <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_new\" class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/petroleum\/supply\/weekly\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">U.S. Energy Information Administration\u2019s Weekly Petroleum Status Report<\/a> tracks weekly changes in U.S. crude oil and petroleum-product inventories. Traders watch the changes against expectations for clues about the balance between supply and demand; weekly figures can be volatile. <\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil stocks:+2.969 million barrels vs \u22120.641 million expected. Prior \u22120.640 million. Cushing crude stocks:+2.266 million barrels. Prior \u22120.342 million. Gasoline stocks:\u22121.686 million barrels vs +0.093 million expected. Prior +0.794 million. Distillate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}