Some attention being paid to weekly US crude....>

OIL: Some attention being paid to weekly US crude oil inventory numbers - that's

the first draw in headline crude oil inventories since early January. Oil prices

have benefited but looks like some refinery quirks could be distorting the

headline. Bloomberg note that BP Whiting refinery in Indiana (450,000bpd

capacity) outages could have had an impact:

- "Looking at that crude draw, most of it was from the Midwest (particularly

Cushing). [...] That's a big draw of 3.5 million barrels of gasoline, much more

than API had set the number last night. Most of the draw came in the Midwest,

where the BP Whiting refinery announced run cuts last week. "