Weekly ethanol production up 3000 b/d

February 23, 2015 |

In the US, ethanol production averaged 964,000 barrels per day (b/d) for the week before last, up 3000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production came in at 963,000 b/d, or 14.76 billion gallons annually.

Gasoline demand for the week averaged 370.0 million gallons daily, with ethanol production meeting 10.94% of that demand.

Ethanol stocks declined 0.2% from the previous week, standing at 21.1 million barrels. There were no imports for the seventh week in a row. On the co-products side, ethanol producers were using 14.617 million bushels of corn to produce ethanol and 107,585 metric tons of livestock feed, 95,913 metric tons of which were distillers grains. The rest is comprised of corn gluten feed and corn gluten meal. Additionally, ethanol producers were providing 5.67 million pounds of corn distillers oil daily.

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