the energy information administration on wednesday reported that us crude inventories fell by 33 million barrels for the week ended aug 19 on average analysts expected a decline of 32 million barrels according to a poll conducted by sp global commodity insights the eia also said gasoline stockpiles were virtually unchanged for the week while distillate stocks declined by 700000 barrels the analyst survey called for an inventory declines of 25 million barrels for gasoline and 360000 barrels for distillates crude stocks at the cushing okla nymex delivery hub edged up by 400000 barrels for the week the eia said october west texas intermediate crude clv22 was down 34 cents or 04 at 9340 a barrel on the new york mercantile exchange it was at 9428 before the supply data