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Exchange of up to 30 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, RFP No. DE-RP96-26PO00003: Award Information

Published by U.S. Department of Energy, Strategic Petroleum Reserve on April 17, 2026.

The April reserve exchange award sheet, naming nine firms, Vitol and Trafigura among them

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… As of April 17, 2026, the following contracts for the exchange of 26,030,000 barrels, have been awarded under RFP No. DE-RP96-26PO00003: Alon USA – 1,000,000 barrels BP Products North America – 1,000,000 barrels Energy Transfer Crude Marketing – 1,100,000 barrels ExxonMobil Oil Corporation – 3,000,000 barrels Macquarie Commodities Trading US – 2,500,000 barrels Marathon Petroleum Company – 2,000,000 barrels Shell Trading (US) Company – 1,900,000 barrels Trafigura Trading LLC – 10,030,000 barrels Vitol – 3,500,000 barrels

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