WORLD SYSTEM BRIEF
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US SPR → refiners · 2026-09-30 · ENTITY

US SPR → refiners

FIRST OBSERVED
WSB-0003 · 2026-09-30
CURRENT STATE
new loan offer up to 40m barrels
CONFIRMED Δ

SYSTEM BIOGRAPHY

2026-09-30 · WSB-0003[1]

STATE CHANGE
final IEA batch largely untaken → new loan offer up to 40m barrels
CONFIRMED Δ

SOURCES

[1] Reuters · 2026-09-29

The US offered energy companies loans of up to 40 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the final US batch under the coordinated IEA release; the SPR held less than 284 million barrels.