Oil prices are plunging on word that America is about to flood market with 180 million barrels of crude

Brent crude futures for May fell US$6.95, or 6.13 per cent, to US$106.50 a barrel by 1057 GMT.

The record SPR oil release is the equivalent to two days of global demand and would hit the market over several months, four U.S.

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