The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) revealed on Wednesday that crude inventories fell by 6.644 million barrels in the week ended February 5. Economists had forecast a build of 0.985 million barrels.

At the same time, gasoline stocks surged by 4.259 million barrels, while analysts had expected a build of 1.814 million barrels. Distillate stocks decreased 1.731 million barrels, while analysts had forecast a drop of 0.790 million barrels.

Meanwhile, oil production in the U.S. rose by 100,000 barrels a day to 11.000 million barrels a day.

U.S. crude oil imports averaged 5.9 million barrels per day last week, decreased by 0.7 million barrels per day from the previous week.