us commercial crudeoil stockpiles are expected to have increased slightly from the previous week in data due wednesday from the energy department according to a survey by the wall street journal estimates from 11 analysts and traders showed us oil inventories are projected to have risen by 100000 barrels for the week ended jan 20 with four analysts forecasting a decline and seven predicting an increase forecasts range from a decrease of 5 million barrels to an increase of 46 million barrels the closely watched survey from the does energy information administration is scheduled for release at 1030 am et wednesday gasoline stockpiles are expected to increase by 1 million barrels from the previous week according to analysts estimates range from a decline of 3 million barrels to an increase of 37 million barrels stocks of distillates which is mostly diesel fuel are expected to fall by 1 million barrels from the previous week forecasts range from a decrease of 29 million barrels to an increase of 2 million barrels refinery use likely increased by 14 percentage points from the previous week to 867 forecasts range from no change to a 3 percentagepoint increase two analysts didnt make a forecast note numbers in millions of barrels with the exception of refinery use which is in percentage points