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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2/28/2020 - DOE Announces Notice of Sale of Crude Oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-announces-notice-sale-crude-oil-strategic-petroleum-reserve-0The Notice of Sale announced today includes a price-competitive sale of up to 12 million barrels of SPR crude. The sale will be conducted with crude oil from the following three SPR sites:
Up to 6 million barrels from Bryan Mound, Texas
Up to 3 million barrels from Big Hill, Texas
Up to 3 million barrels from West Hackberry, Louisiana
"DOE must receive bids no later than 2:00 PM Eastern Time on March 10, 2020. DOE will award contracts to successful offerors no later than March 20, 2020. Deliveries will take place in April and May of 2020."
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Any further info about offers per barrel from the successful buyers and/or deliveries in the time of CoVID-19 National Emergency?
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2/28/2020 - DOE Announces Notice of Sale of Crude Oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (Original Post)
Backseat Driver
Mar 2020
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Bernardo de La Paz
(53,379 posts)1. Brilliant buy high sell low. . . . nt
rampartc
(5,835 posts)2. +1
this would be a good time to fill the strategic reserve
duforsure
(11,885 posts)3. Yes that would be good, but he'll do the opposite
Putting us in jeopardy by draining it instead. For Putin? Probably, and why the counterintel guy was fired also, putin wanted it done.
rampartc
(5,835 posts)4. i might be a contrarian here
but i don't think trump takes orders from putin. he is beholden to the russian mobsters who hold his markers.
this strategic reserve is mostly the result of an idiot in chief who does not understand "strategic" or "reserve"
Wounded Bear
(61,593 posts)6. Who do you think is the head Russian mobster?
All roads lead to Putin.
tirebiter
(2,620 posts)5. Is this somehow supposed to raise the price of a barrel of oil
Call me confused. Too much snake oil from this hombre.
Alacritous Crier
(4,216 posts)7. WTF??? -- nt
Roland99
(53,345 posts)8. Soooo..this was done BEFORE oil prices crashed?
I thought it was VERY odd that Twitler announced the US would be adding to the SPR after oil prices plummeted
They knew