certainly help those companies and those refineries to function, whereas they wouldn't be functioning without a supply of crude oil.
The amount of refined product versus crude that they will offer has not been determined, ... Their intentions are to provide the maximum amount of refined product within their requirements.
To meet our obligations as a member of the International Energy Agency, the United States will release 30 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, ... We will offer the oil for bid.
The SPR was put in place specifically for this kind of an event, ... We now have, in some instances, problems with getting crude to some refineries.
It's important for our people to know that we understand the situation and we're willing to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to mitigate any shortfall in crude oil that could affect our consumers,