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  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    Reimagining the SPR

    Adapting the Federal Reserve’s playbook for commodity risk

  • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
    Opec
    Oil price surges after Opec+ nations make surprise output cut

    Saudi-led reduction of more than 1mn barrels per day puts Riyadh on collision course with US

    Aramco terminal in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia,
  • Friday, 16 December, 2022
    US to buy back oil for emergency stockpile after fall in price

    Biden administration announces ‘pilot’ purchase of 3mn barrels following unprecedented sales

    The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Texas
  • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia willing to pump more oil if global energy crisis worsens

    Riyadh’s energy minister says Opec+ supply cuts were needed to provide future production buffer 

    Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, Saudi energy minister, addresses a panel session of the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh
  • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
    US politics & policy
    Biden orders officials to prepare for more emergency oil releases

    US president authorises sale of 15mn barrels as Democrats battle high petrol prices ahead of midterms

    A crude oil pump jack in the Permian Basin in Texas
  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Oil
    US aims to spur oil production by refilling emergency crude stockpile

    Biden administration plans to repurchase 60mn barrels at lower prices in future

    A contractor works on a crude oil pipeline at the US Department of Energy’s Bryan Mound Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas, on Thursday, June 9 2016
  • Thursday, 31 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    US orders record oil release from strategic reserves

    Biden administration will inject 1mn barrels a day into market over the next six months

    Oil pumpjacks in a field near Lovington, New Mexico
  • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
    US politics & policy
    Biden’s petrol problem: president eyes gas tax cut as pump prices soar

    White House weighs voter anger on rising costs against pledge to lead clean energy transition

    President Joe Biden has pledged to electrify the nation’s vehicles
  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
    ExplainerOil
    Will tapping the US strategic stockpile lower oil prices?

    Release of 50m barrels of crude would cover half a day of global consumption

    A maze of crude oil pipes and valves at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas
  • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
    LexOil
    Oil prices/Biden: Americans should have reservations on reserve release Premium content

    President’s move will do little to help drivers in the near term

    Gas prices shown on sign outside gas station
  • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
    Energy Source
    Biden’s dilemma over Strategic Petroleum Reserve release Premium content

    Plus, the energy transition spells trouble for high-cost oil producers

  • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
    InterviewEnergy crisis
    US considers releasing emergency oil reserves to tame fuel price surge

    Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm says ‘all tools are on the table’

  • Friday, 3 April, 2020
    Oil & Gas industry
    US shale producers launch anti-Saudi lobbying push

    Sector taps former energy secretary Rick Perry and seeks block on some imports

  • Saturday, 14 March, 2020
    Oil & Gas industry
    US looks at buying oil in bid to save American shale producers

    Trump administration orders boost for strategic storage network

    STRATEGIC OIL RESERVE...File--The St. James Terminal, a marine unloading and distribution point for crude oil, a U.S. Department of Energy owned site located southwest of Baton Rouge, La., on the Mississippi River, that serves the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is seen in this October, 1990 file photo. The SPR, the largest stockpile of crude oil in the world, was created to diminish the impact of oil disruption emergencies. Oil destined for storage in the SPR salt dome caverns along the U.S. Gulf Coast is unloaded at the St. James Terminal and transferred to underground salt dome storage sites by pipeline. (AP Photo, File)
  • Tuesday, 20 November, 2018
    FT AlphavilleBrendan Greeley
    For the White House, cheap oil is now shortsighted politics
    For the White House, cheap oil is now shortsighted politics
  • Monday, 20 August, 2018
    Oil
    US approves sale from strategic oil reserve as Iran sanctions loom
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2017
    Markets InsightDavid Sheppard
    US oil reserve needs to build storage of refined fuels

    Fuel processing capacity increasingly consolidated in the hurricane-prone Gulf coast

    Floodwater surrounds oil refinery storage tanks in Texas
  • Friday, 1 September, 2017
    Oil
    US taps more oil from emergency stockpile as Harvey pressures petrol prices
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2017
    Oil
    US Strategic Petroleum Reserve makes emergency release in wake of Harvey
  • Friday, 18 August, 2017
    Oil
    Traders nervously eye China’s strategic oil imports

    Industry fears market will become vulnerable once Beijing curtails its stockbuilding

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2016
    FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
    China’s crude oil price exposure
  • Wednesday, 11 November, 2015
    Oil
    Oil glut deepens with 100m barrels at sea

    Fuel stored at sea is more than a day’s worth of global consumption

    Tanker Glut Signals 25% Slump In Freight Rates This Year...An oil tanker is anchored near the Port of Long Beach, California, U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. A surplus of idled oil tankers, which would stretch 26 miles if lined up end to end, may signal a 25 percent slump in freight rates this year. The ships will unload 26 percent of the crude and oil products they are storing in six months, adding to vessel supply and pushing rates for supertankers down to an average of $30,000 a day, compared with $40,212 now. Photographer: Tim Rue/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2015
    FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane
    Further reading
  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2015
    US politics & policy
    US budget deal: show us the money

    Savings come from minor tax and spending tweaks, a spectrum auction and strategic oil reserve sales

    An American flag hangs from fire truck ladders in front of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015.
  • Tuesday, 13 January, 2015
    Oil
    China’s oil imports climb above 7m barrels a day for first time

    Country’s purchases rise above 7m barrels a day as prices plunge

    Oil tanker
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