register now for free unlimited access to reuterscom register the sun is seen behind a crude oil pump jack in the permian basin in loving county texas us november 22 2019 reutersangus mordant sept 8 reuters  us crude stockpiles surged by nearly 9 million barrels last week due to a combination of increased imports and ongoing releases from government emergency reserves the energy information administration said on thursday crude inventories usoilceci rose by 88 million barrels in the week to sept 2 to 4272 million barrels compared with analysts expectations in a reuters poll for a 250000barrel drop the united states imported roughly 68 million barrels of crude per day bpd in the most recent week while exports dropped and a release of another 75 million barrels from the us strategic petroleum reserve also boosted commercial stocks the releases which have shrunk the spr to its lowest in nearly four decades are set to end in october and production growth may not be enough to prevent balances from shrinking us crude output has steadied at 121 million bpd refinery crude runs usoicreci fell by 309000 bpd in the last week and utilization rates usoirueci fell by 18 percentage points to 909 of overall capacity largely due to a sharp drop in midwest refining gasoline stocks usoilgeci rose by 333000 barrels in the week to 2148 million barrels​ overall gasoline product supplied a proxy for demand was 88 million bpd over the last four weeks down 8 from the yearago period this crude build is showing how the market is softening the refinery utilization has been cut materially over the past few weeks as we’re down 900000 bpd year on year for gasoline demand said john kilduff partner at again capital llc in new york distillate stockpiles usoildeci which include diesel and heating oil rose by 95000 barrels refiners have been trying to rebuild distillate inventories in anticipation of winter demand while also satisfying purchases from overseas buyers particularly in europe net us crude imports usoicieci rose by 136 million barrels per day eia said oil prices rose modestly on the data us crude was up 17 to 8333 a barrel while brent gained 09 to 8883 a barrel reporting by david gaffen additional reporting by laura sanicola editing by marguerita choy