US weekly ethanol production dropped compared with a week ago, according to the US Energy Information Administration report on Wednesday.
For the week ending Sept. 18, US ethanol production averaged 1.03 million barrels per day, down from 1.10 million b/d the prior week and roughly unchanged from 1.02 million b/d a year earlier. The four-week average was 1.08 million b/d, above 1.07 million b/d last year.
Midwest ethanol production averaged 962,000 bpd, below 1.04 million bpd the previous week. Four-week average output was 1.02 million bpd, compared with 1.01 million bpd a year ago.
Domestic ethanol inventories ended the week at 24.7 million barrels, down from 25.2 million a week ago and up from 23.5 million a year ago.