us crudeoil inventories rose sharply last week and stockpiles in a key hub in oklahoma rebounded from a multiyear low according to data released wednesday by the energy information administration benchmark us oil prices that were slightly lower before the mostlybearish report was released extended those declines afterward the nymex frontmonth crude contract for april delivery was recently down 13 at 9520 a barrel crudeoil stockpiles jumped by 43 million barrels to 4159 million barrels and are now about 12 below the fiveyear average the eia said analysts surveyed by the wall street journal had predicted crude stockpiles would decrease by 18 million barrels from the prior week oil stored at cushing okla the delivery point for us stocks climbed by 18 million barrels from the previous week to 24 million barrels the eia said in its weekly report us crudeoil production was unchanged from the previous week at 116 million barrels a day according to the eia gasoline stockpiles fell by 36 million barrels to 241 million barrels compared with analysts expectations for inventories to decrease by 15 million barrels from the previous week distillate stocks which include heating oil and diesel fuel surprisingly rose by 332000 barrels to 1142 million barrels and are now about 16 below the fiveyear average the eia said analysts were forecasting distillates inventories would fall by 21 million barrels from the previous week the refining capacity utilization rate jumped by 11 percentage points from the previous week to 904 compared with analysts forecasts for a smaller 02 percentagepoint increase us oil inventories for the week ended march 11 note numbers in millions of barrels with the exception of refinery use which is in percentage points