Amid a mixture of news pulling oil prices in opposite directions the Energy Information Administration reported another draw in U.S. crude oil inventories for the week to December 22. The EIA said inventories had gone down by 4.6 million barrels, a day after the American Petroleum Institute estimated these had declined by 6 million barrels , sending WTI higher. At 431.9 million barrels, the EIA said, inventories were in the middle of the average range for this time of year. Gasoline inventories rose by 600,000 barrels last week, after a 1.2-million-barrel jump a week earlier, with production averaging 10.2 million barrels daily, up from 10.1 million barrels daily in the week to December 15. The last week of the year was unusually rich in price-moving news. On Tuesday, Ineos said in an update that the Forties pipeline had been restarted, although at half-capacity. Then, a day later, IHS Markit […]