TREE NEWS reports: Government-controlled oil inventories across OECD countries fell in August to their lowest level since at least December 1989 and slipped further in September, the IEA said in its monthly report. OECD nations held 1.03 billion barrels of government stocks at the end of August, releasing another 8 million barrels in September. About 96 million barrels of the 400 million-barrel emergency release agreed in March remain outstanding.
OECD Government Oil Stocks Fall to Lowest Since 1989, IEA Says
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The drawdown matters less for its headline level than for the shrinking buffer it leaves behind: with roughly a quarter of the agreed emergency release still unspent, the mechanism has moved from a one-off crisis tool to a live, depleting reserve. That shifts the risk calculus for any future supply disruption, since the same governments now have less room to repeat the exercise. Whether the outstanding barrels are released and whether commercial inventories absorb the gap are the open questions.
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