US to complete 180-million barrel SPR drawdown, lay out plan to replenish oil reserve

The US Department of Energy will issue a notice to sell up to 15 million barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Oct. 19, completing the largest-ever drawdown from the emergency stockpile, and finalize a plan to giving it more buying power to replenish the SPR in the future, senior Biden administration officials said Oct. 18. The DOE is…