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The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

281 points · 115 comments · johnjwang

calmlynarczyk · 1789609374 · focus · HN ↗
This is a pretty popular topic this past month, huh?
<a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve" rel="nofollow">https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-strategic-pet...
1. saghm · 1789620195 · focus · HN ↗
  Probably 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: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-stocks-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-fall-lowest-level-since-1982-2026-09-14/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-stocks-us-strate...
2. stephbook · 1789633258 · focus · HN ↗
  Interesting that these articles don't mention China's storage capacity, which is bigger and more crucial these days.
  Maybe China publishes less official knowledge?
  1. rtkwe · 1789669403 · focus · HN ↗
    China 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.
  2. Scoundreller · 1789696659 · focus · HN ↗
    China isn’t a member but IEA requires its 32 members to have 90d stockpile worth of oil imports:
    <a href="https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/oil-stocks-of-iea-countries" rel="nofollow">https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/oil-stock...

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