The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) revealed on Wednesday that crude inventories rose by 2.032 million barrels in the week ended September 4. Economists had forecast a decrease of 1.335 million barrels.

At the same time, gasoline stocks dropped by 2.954 million barrels, while analysts had expected a decline of 2.384 million barrels. Distillate stocks fell by 1.675 million barrels, while analysts had forecast a drop of 0.557 million barrels.

Meanwhile, oil production in the U.S. increased by 300,000 barrels a day to 10.000 million barrels a day.

U.S. crude oil imports averaged 5.4 million barrels per day last week, increased by 0.5 million barrels per day from the previous week.