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Nine companies to buy oil from U.S. strategic reserve in latest sale

Reuters · Costas Pitas · last updated

Aug 11 (Reuters) — The United States on Thursday said nine companies will buy 20 million barrels of oil in the latest sale from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of the Biden administration’s plan to ease petroleum prices elevated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and economies recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

 

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