oil futures ended a choppy session in positive territory after data showed a large drop in us gasoline and distillate inventories west texas intermediate crude for june delivery cl1 clm22 rose 32 cents or 03 to close at 10202 a barrel on the new york mercantile exchange after earlier dipping back below the 100 threshold crude found some support after weekly inventory data from the energy information administration although us crude inventories showed a rise of 700000 barrels gasoline inventories fell by 16 million barrels last week versus analyst expectations for a rise of 100000 barrels while distillate stocks fell 14 million barrels compared to expectations for a drop of 100000 barrels