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Strategic Petroleum Reserve (United States) The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is an emergency stockpile of petroleum maintained by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). It is the largest publicly known emergency supply in the world; its underground tanks in Louisiana and Texas have capacity for 714 million barrels (113,500,000 m 3). [1]
Global strategic petroleum reserves. Global strategic petroleum reserves (GSPR) refer to crude oil inventories (or stockpiles) held by the government of a particular country, as well as private industry, to safeguard the economy and help maintain national security during an energy crisis. Strategic reserves are intended to be used to cover ...
Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The United States maintains a Strategic Petroleum Reserve at four sites on the Gulf of Mexico, with a total capacity of 727 million barrels (115.6 × 106 m 3) of crude oil. The maximum total withdrawal capability from the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve is 4.4 million barrels (700,000 m 3) per day.
Strategic Petroleum Reserve (United States) See also. Global strategic petroleum reserves This page was last edited on 2 October 2019, at 13:21 (UTC). Text is ...
The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 (EPCA) (Pub. L. 94–163, 89 Stat. 871, enacted December 22, 1975) is a United States Act of Congress that responded to the 1973 oil crisis by creating a comprehensive approach to federal energy policy. The primary goals of EPCA are to increase energy production and supply, reduce energy demand ...
Proven oil reserves are those quantities of petroleum which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated, with a high degree of confidence, to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward from known reservoirs and under current economic conditions.
A strategic reserve can be: Financial in nature such as ring-fenced funding or capital reserves of a large corporation. A commodity, such as intervention stocks of food or petrol (see security of supply and strategic petroleum reserves) Specific machinery, such as railroad cars or steam locomotives, to be used in an emergency situation.
The United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created in 1975. The Weatherization Assistance Program [25] was enacted in 1977. On average, low-cost weatherization reduces heating bills by 31% and overall energy bills by $358 per year at 2012 prices. Increased energy efficiency and weatherization spending has a high return on investment. [26]