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On the 24th, it will be six months since Russia invaded Ukraine.
In the meantime, international oil prices have risen sharply as Russia has reduced oil production.
Correspondent Yunsu Kim from Washington.
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has said
the U.S. will enter record oil production next year.
The plan is to increase production from the current 12 million barrels per day to 12.7 million barrels per day.
It is the highest daily production in the United States.
Granholm said the move was intended to make up for the loss of millions of barrels of Russian oil supplies from international markets after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Biden administration has been releasing 180 million barrels of strategic oil reserves at a rate of 1 million barrels per day for six months since March when oil prices soared since the outbreak of the Ukraine war.
Since then, the average price of a gas station in the United States, which has soared to more than $5 a gallon, has recently dropped to around $3.9.
Next month, it plans to release an additional 20 million barrels of strategic oil to further lower oil prices.
[Jennifer Granholm/Secretary of Energy: The average gas station price in the fourth quarter of this year will drop to around $3.78 per gallon.
However, there is a possibility that the situation in the international community will be affected.]
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries declined President Biden's request for an increase in production last month and reduced the rate of production increase, but international oil prices continue to decline as concerns about an economic recession spread.