(彭博社)——拜登政府周一宣布，已购买 465 万桶原油作为国家的紧急储备，以继续补充已耗尽的储备。
能源部一直在缓慢补充战略石油储备，该储备在俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后出现了前所未有的减少，降至 40 年来的新低。2022 年，面对零售汽油价格飙升，拜登政府下令释放创纪录的 1.8 亿桶紧急石油供应。
现在，政府继续利用原油价格下跌的机会，原油价格自 4 月初以来已下跌约 10%。
“我们将继续回购，”美国能源部副部长戴维·特克 (David Turk) 在接受采访时表示。“我们将继续进入明年，并尝试尽可能多地回购。”
周一公布的合同使补充储备所需的石油总购买量达到 4325 万桶。能源部称，平均购买价格为每桶 77 美元。此外，该机构表示，已加快归还借给石油公司的 550 万桶石油。
合同授予了埃克森美孚和麦格理。能源部表示，石油将于 10 月 1 日至 12 月 31 日期间运送至该储备区的 Bayou Choctaw 储存点。
根据能源部的数据，该储备目前拥有 3.75 亿桶石油。截至 2022 年初，该储备约为 6 亿桶。
(Bloomberg) – The Biden administration announced Monday it has purchased 4.65 MMbbl of crude oil for the nation’s emergency cache as it continues refilling the depleted reserve.
The Energy Department has been slowly replenishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which reached a 40-year-low following an unprecedented drawdown in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In 2022, the Biden administration ordered the release of a record 180 MMbbl from the emergency oil supply in the face of surging retail gasoline costs.
Now, the administration is continuing to take advantage of a dip in crude prices, which have fallen about 10% since early April.
“We will keep buying back,” Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk said in an interview. “We will keeping going into next year and try to buy back as much as we are capable of buying back.”
The contracts announced Monday bring the total amount of oil bought to refill the reserve to 43.25 MMbbl. The average purchase price was $77 a barrel, according to the Energy Department. In addition, the agency said it has accelerated the return of 5.5 MMbbl it loaned to oil companies.
The contracts were awarded to Exxon Mobil and Macquarie. The oil will be delivered to the reserve’s Bayou Choctaw storage site from October 1 through December 31, the Energy Department said.
The reserve currently holds 375 MMbbl of oil, according to Energy Department data. It held approximately 600 MMbbl at the start of 2022.
