…crude inventories came as 470,000 barrels per day were added to our commercially available stocks of crude oil, which in turn was partly offset by a 235,000 barrels per day…

…and the withdrawal of crude from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve, our commercial  supplies of crude oil in storage rose for the 9th time in 25 weeks and for the 18th time in…

…since our crude oil inventories had jumped to record highs during the Covid lockdowns of spring 2020 and remained elevated for most of a year after that, our commercial crude…

…oil imports, a jump in our oil exports, and an increase in our refining, we again had to pull oil out of our stored commercial crude supplies (see above chart)…

…the week ending February 25th indicated that after a big jump in our oil exports and a drop in our oil imports, we had to pull oil out of our stored commercial crude supplies for the…

…commercial crude supplies had increased by 2,421,000 barrels over the prior week . . . with this week’s increase, our commercial crude oil inventories were about 13% below the most recent five-year…

…following hurricanes in the Gulf (you can get a better view of that by clicking on the graph, or even better yet, the enlarged version at substack.com . . . on…

…data for the daily supply of oil and for the consumption of it balance out, a fudge factor that they label in their footnotes as “unaccounted for crude oil,” thus…

…415,727,000 barrels on April 29th, after our commercial crude supplies had increased by 691,000,000 barrels over the prior week…with this week’s increase, our commercial crude oil inventories rose to about…

…the news coverage of them has been less than clear, we’ll include here a copy of the SPR release schedule that the Congressional Research Service prepared for members of Congress, so that…