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Energy Department Awards New Contracts from Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Advancing Emergency Exchange
Published by U.S. Department of Energy on April 17, 2026.
Third award of the U.S. reserve exchange: 26 million barrels.
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announced awards of contracts to exchange 26 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) at the West Hackberry site
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- The G7's 100 million barrels of emergency oil were already promised in March · cited for the awards that make up the U.S. share
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Timeline entries this record anchors: U.S. exchange awards, March to June.