U.S. crude inventories dropped by 2.06 million barrels last week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Normally, this "shoulder" period sees stockpiles climb as refineries undertake maintenance in the break between peak summer gasoline demand and peak winter demand for heating oil. But processing rates at U.S. refineries remained more than 10 percentage points […]


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