RE:SPR Release 2023 I do not believe SPR releases are over. For the US administration keeping prices of oil depressed is of highest priorities for so many reasons. Please note that they successfully tested a scheme where they were selling and buying SPR at the same time and it seemingly worked. The idea behind it is very simple - SPR must be dumped in a certain way that will cause the biggest damage to the oil prices, so they choose the most vulnerable time during each week and dump it in large enough quantity to lower the price as much as they can. Then they re-purchase a portion of what they sold at higher prices. They do lose several bucks for each barrel sold/repurchased but these losses are what they are willing to lose.
So I do believe they will continue was trading so they may still be selling 10 mm barrels each months and repurchasing about 5 mm each month. That will give them enough time to keep oil prices in check for the upcoming election.