US Oil Inventories Keep Growing as Prices Sag

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States rose again, this time by 2.499 million barrels in the week ending May 16 after analysts had estimated a 1.85-million-barrel draw. The API reported a 4.287 million barrel inventory increase in the prior week. So far this year, crude oil inventories are up more than 25 million barrels, according to Oilprice calculations of API data. Earlier this week, the Department of Energy (DoE) reported that crude oil inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve…