that's 13M bbls which is probably in excess of US daily consumption now.
according to Wikipedia and DOE, there's ~80M bbls unused SPR capacity as of 3 weeks ago. If there were some astute federal purchasers and accountants, they would've been buyers of all those contracts yesterday and recouped some of the bounty being dispersed out the other door at the US Treasury/FRB. Maybe they'll wake up for the June contracts.
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