Wednesday, October 22, 2025

DOE’s Office of the SPR has made a request for proposals to buy one million barrels of sour crude.

Happy Wednesday!

At this point, you know how we enjoy writing follow-ups or updates for our Blog!  We wrote about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) several times last year for having either purchased or returned to them crude oil to fill this American asset.  According to their website as of March 28, 2025, they have 396.4 million barrels of oil in this crucial asset.  Well, the U.S. DOE Petroleum Reserve’s Office was fairly quiet at this year nonetheless today they announced something!

Did anyone happen to read the DOE’s CESER Updates Newsletter for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on October 21, 2025, their update included, “The U.S. Department of Energy today announced a new solicitation to acquire one million barrels of oil for delivery to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s Bryan Mound site”?  In the DOE’s updates, the Office of Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has announced they are looking to buy one million barrels of sour crude oil for the SPR in Bryan Mound.  The SPR has $171 million to continue replenishing its facilities and the money is appropriated from the Working Families Tax Cut.  The SPR’s sites are capable of containing 700 million barrels and the previous administration has been able to line up approximately 400 million barrels to date.  The current proposal request is for a December 2025 or January 2026 delivery all bids must be submitted by October 28, 2025, please see announcement for deadline time.  We will keep you posted on anything else we hear from the SPR.  If you would like to read more of the announcement from the DOE’s Office of Strategic Petroleum Reserves, please click the link: Energy Department Issues Solicitation to Purchase Crude Oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve | Department of Energy.

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We hope you have a wonderful evening!

**Disclaimer: Please see the update from CESER for specifics. **