The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) revealed on Wednesday that crude inventories decreased by 0.679 million barrels in the week ended November 27. Economists had forecast a decline of 2.358 million barrels.

At the same time, gasoline stocks rose by 3.491 million barrels, while analysts had expected a gain of 2.386 million barrels. Distillate stocks advanced by 3.238 million barrels, while analysts had forecast a decrease of 0.209 million barrels.

Meanwhile, oil production in the U.S. grew by 100,000 barrels a day to 11.100 million barrels a day.

U.S. crude oil imports averaged 5.4 million barrels per day last week, up by 171,000 thousand barrels per day from the previous week.