The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) revealed on Wednesday that crude inventories decreased by 6.912 million barrels in the week ended September 6. Economists had forecast a drop of 2.900 million barrels.

At the same time, gasoline stocks reduced by 0.682 million barrels, while analysts had expected a decline of 1.000 million barrels. Distillate stocks rose by 2.704 million barrels, while analysts had forecast a decrease of 0.900 million barrels.

Meanwhile, oil production in the U.S. was unchanged at 12.400 million barrels a day.

U.S. crude oil imports averaged 6.7 million barrels per day last week, down by 180,000 barrels per day from the previous week.