Poten's weekly opinion - the effect of the US Strategic Reserve release on tankers

Apr 06 2022


President Biden is determined to bring down oil and gasoline prices and yesterday he announced that the U.S. will release up to 180 million barrels of oil from the government’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) over the next six months, starting in May. The U.S. SPR is the world’s largest emergency supply of crude oil.

The most positive scenario for the tanker market would be if the additional barrels would end up in the export market.

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