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US offers emergency sale of 30mn bl of crude

  • Mercados: Crude oil
  • 02/03/22

President Joe Biden's administration's emergency drawdown from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) will sell up to 20mn bl of sour crude and up to 10mn bl of sweet crude, for delivery in April and May.

The administration, in a sale notice published today, set an 8 March deadline for competitive offers in the emergency drawdown. The SPR sale will represent half of the IEA's decision on 1 March to release 60mn bl of oil in strategic reserves. The White House hopes the sale limits fuel price spikes tied to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while having a similar price effect of Biden's decision in November to offer to sell up to 50mn bl from the SPR.

"If you look at what we did with the SPR back in the fall, it brought down prices by more than 10¢/USG over the holiday season, so we are optimistic," the White House said today.

The US Energy Department is managing the sale, which will sell crude from all four storage facilities that make up the SPR. The US will offer 2mn bl of sour crude from its Big Hill SPR site near Beaumont, Texas, 10mn bl of sour crude from its West Hackberry SPR site near Lake Charles, Louisiana, and up to 8mn bl of sour crude from its Bryan Mound SPR site near Freeport, Texas. The sale will also offer up to 10mn bl of sweet crude from the Bayou Choctaw SPR site in Louisiana.

Bids must be received no later than 11am ET on 8 March. Deliveries are scheduled to take place from 1 April to 31 May.

Big Hill Sour has a gravity of 30.8°API and sulfur content of 1.43pc, and West Hackberry Sour has a gravity of 33°API and a sulfur content of 1.49pc. Bryan Mound Sour has a 33.3°API and sulfur content of 1.4pc. Bayou Choctaw Sweet has a gravity of 35.3°API and a sulfur content of 0.42pc.


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