US Buys $411M in Oil to Refill Reserves
The purchases are part of an effort to replenish stockpiles after President Joe Biden ordered the largest-ever sale from the reserve in 2022 of 180 million barrels to control fuel prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The US bought 3.5 million barrels from Exxon Mobil (XOM.N), opened a new tab, 2 million from Shell Trading Company, and 500,000 from Macquarie Commodities Trading US, for a total cost of more than $411 million, the department said.
The sour crude, or oil that many US refineries are engineered to process, will be delivered at a rate of 1.5 million barrels per month from February to May next year to the Bayou Choctaw site in Louisiana.
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After that, the department only has enough money for SPR purchases to buy about 2 million barrels at about $75 per barrel.
To continue to keep filling the SPR after that, the department must ask Congress for more money and/or persuade it to cancel upcoming congressionally mandated sales.
The department previously worked with Congress nearly two years ago to help replenish the SPR by canceling sales of 140 million barrels that had been mandated through 2027 to raise money for government programs.
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