distillate

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Hopes for an agreement led the market to overlook a bullish EIA inventory report showing U.S. commercial crude stocks down by 7.9 million barrels last week, although distillate stocks rose for a second straight week.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Last week’s 190,000 barrel distillate stock build following six straight weekly draws was “small but symbolically meaningful,” Noel-Beswick says.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

U.S. gasoline stocks fell by 6.1 million barrels and distillate stocks were down by 4.5 million barrels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

“With the loss of Port Arthur, your distillate crisis has gone up another level,” said Paul Sankey, analyst of Sankey Research, at an energy conference in Houston on Tuesday.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck