The latest Platts survey is looking for a 1.0 million barrel draw in commercial crude oil stocks, a 1.2 million barrel gain in distillate supplies, and an 800,000 barrel increase in gasoline inventories.  The Reuters tally expects crude oil supplies off by 1.3 million barrels, distillate stocks up by 1.0 million barrels, with gasoline inventories rising by 1.2 million barrels. Our guesstimates would suggest that with little if any SPR crude remaining to be transferred to commercial storage and assuming crude oil runs remain roughly even with the prior week, gross crude oil imports would have to surge considerably to preclude a crude oil draw significantly larger than consensus expectations, given the relatively slow recovery of domestic crude oil production in the aftermath of Lee.

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