HOUSTON, July 2 (Xinhua) -- U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 17.1 million barrels per day (b/d) during the week ending June 27, 118,000 b/d more than the previous week's average, according to the weekly report issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Wednesday.

Refineries operated at 94.9 percent of their operable capacity last week, said the EIA's Weekly Petroleum Data Report.

Gasoline production went down last week, averaging 9.6 million b/d, while distillate fuel production went up by 244,000 b/d, averaging 5 million b/d.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories, excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, surged by 3.8 million barrels from the previous week to 419 million barrels, about 9 percent below the five-year average for this time of year.

Total motor gasoline inventories rose by 4.2 million barrels last week, about 1 percent below the five-year average for this time of year.

Distillate fuel inventories dropped by 1.7 million barrels last week, around 21 percent below the five-year average for this time of year.

Propane/propylene inventories went up by 3 million barrels last week, 11 percent above the five-year average for this time of year.

Total commercial petroleum inventories increased by 9.4 million barrels last week.

Total products supplied over the last four-week period averaged 20.3 million b/d, down by 1.1 percent from the same period last year.

Over the past four weeks, motor gasoline product supplied averaged 9.2 million b/d, down by 0.1 percent from the same period last year.

Distillate fuel product supplied averaged 3.7 million b/d over the past four weeks, up by 0.6 percent from the same period last year.

Jet fuel product supplied was up 2.4 percent compared with the same four-week period last year. ■