The U.S. Energy Department said on Thursday it is offering up to six million bar...
FILE PHOTO: A maze of crude oil pipes and valves is pictured during a tour by the Department of Energy at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas, U.S. June 9, 2016. REUTERS/Richard Carson
A law U.S. President Donald Trump signed last year requires the department to hold sales to fund $300 million improvements including work on shipping terminals to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or SPR, which is held in caverns on the coast of Texas and Louisiana. Previous laws have also mandated sales from the reserve, which currently holds more than 649 million barrels.
Still, the oil supply could tighten in coming months with the Trump administration’s imposition of sanctions on crude exports from both Iran and Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, and with the producer supply cuts from OPEC and Russia.
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