Report to the Congress on Expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to One Billion Barrels
Title | Report to the Congress on Expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to One Billion Barrels PDF eBook |
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Pages | 72 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Energy policy |
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Report to Congress on Expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to One Billion Barrels
Title | Report to Congress on Expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to One Billion Barrels PDF eBook |
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Report to the Congress on Candidate Sites for Expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to One Billion Barrels
Title | Report to the Congress on Candidate Sites for Expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to One Billion Barrels PDF eBook |
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Release | 1991 |
Genre | Petroleum reserves |
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Report to the Congress on Candidate Sites for Expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to One Billion Barrels
Title | Report to the Congress on Candidate Sites for Expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to One Billion Barrels PDF eBook |
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Report to the Congress on Candidate Sites for Expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to One Billion Barrels
Title | Report to the Congress on Candidate Sites for Expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to One Billion Barrels PDF eBook |
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Release | 1991 |
Genre | Petroleum reserves |
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Crs Report for Congress
Title | Crs Report for Congress PDF eBook |
Author | Congressional Research Service: The Libr |
Publisher | BiblioGov |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 2013-10 |
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ISBN | 9781294022640 |
Congress authorized the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA, P.L. 94-163) to help prevent a repetition of the economic dislocation caused by the 1973-1974 Arab oil embargo. The Department of Energy (DOE) manages the SPR, which comprises five underground storage facilities, solution-mined from naturally occurring salt domes in Texas and Louisiana. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) authorized SPR expansion to a capacity of 1 billion barrels, but physical expansion of the SPR has not proceeded beyond 727 million barrels its inventory at the end of 2010. In addition, a Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve (NHOR) holds 2 million barrels of heating oil in above-ground storage. EPCA authorized drawdown of the Reserve upon a finding by the President that there is a "severe energy supply interruption." Congress enacted additional authority in 1990 (Energy Policy and Conservation Act Amendments of 1990, P.L. 101-383) to permit use of the SPR for short periods to resolve supply interruptions stemming from situations internal to the United States. The meaning of a "severe energy supply interruption" has been controversial. EPCA intended use of the SPR only to ameliorate discernible physical shortages of crude oil. The government had ended ...
Strategic petroleum reserve plan
Title | Strategic petroleum reserve plan PDF eBook |
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Pages | 29 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Petroleum |
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