The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its crude oil inventories data on Wednesday. U.S. crude inventories fell by 1.9 million barrels to 454.0 million in the week to September 18.

Analysts had expected U.S. crude oil inventories to decline by 1.5 million barrels.

Gasoline inventories increased by 1.4 million barrels, according to the EIA.

Crude stocks at the Cushing, Oklahoma, declined by 462,000 barrels.

U.S. crude oil imports fell by 13,000 barrels per day.

Refineries in the U.S. were running at 90.9% of capacity, up from 93.1% the previous week.