The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States rose by 2.4 million barrels ...

Both API and EIA reports can influence crude oil prices, though the API is often used as a preliminary indicator. The API report is based on voluntary survey responses from its members ...

Investing.com -- U.S. crude oil futures were roughly unchanged from ... compared with a draw of 4.6M barrels reported by the API for the previous week. Economists were expecting a build of just ...