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This is a pretty popular topic this past month, huh? https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve https://www.construction-physic
by calmlynarczyk 18d ago
This is a pretty popular topic this past month, huh?
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-strategic-pet...
- saghm 18d agoProbably because the oil itself has been getting pretty popular to, on account of the whole "bombing the people who control access to where we usually get it from" thing: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-stocks-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-fall-lowest-level-since-1982-2026-09-14/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-stocks-us-strate...
- stephbook 18d agoInteresting that these articles don't mention China's storage capacity, which is bigger and more crucial these days. Maybe China publishes less official knowledge?
- rtkwe 18d agoChina is much more cagey about the exact levels and capacity of it's version of the SPR but there's a lot of evidence they're drawing pretty heavily from it to cut their oil imports which has had a big impact on reducing the impact of the whole illegal war in Iran situation.
- Scoundreller 17d agoChina isn’t a member but IEA requires its 32 members to have 90d stockpile worth of oil imports: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/oil-stocks-of-iea-countries https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/oil-stock...