** Inventories rose 941,000 barrels to 31.82 million barrels during the week to Dec. 8, Genscape said

** It is the highest level since Genscape began monitoring western Canadian storage in 2010. It is also 895,000 barrels higher than the previous record from March 2017

** This surpasses inventories of 2.39 million barrels in the same week a year ago

(Reporting by Catherine Ngai; Editing by Chris Reese)