HOUSTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - U.S. crude stocks and gasoline inventories rose while distillate inventories fell in last week, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.
Crude inventories rose by 1.2 million barrels to 420.7 million barrels in the week ended January 26, the EIA said, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 217,000-barrel draw.
Crude stocks at the Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery hub fell by 2 million barrels last week, the EIA said.
Refinery crude runs fell by 428,000 barrels per day, the EIA said.
Refinery utilization rates fell by 2.6 percentage points in the week.
U.S. gasoline stocks rose by 1.2 million barrels in the week to 253 million barrels, the EIA said, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 1.5 million-barrel build.
Distillate stockpiles, which include diesel and heating oil, fell by 2.5 million barrels in the week to 133.3 million barrels, versus expectations for a 0.4 million-barrel drop, the EIA data showed.
Net U.S. crude imports rose last week by 565,000 barrels per day, EIA said. (Reporting by Arathy Somasekhar in Houston)
