Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Difference between revisions

* [[Richton, Mississippi|Richton]], Mississippi: This facility, if built as planned, would have had a capacity of {{convert|160|Moilbbl|m3}} with a drawdown capacity of {{convert|1|Moilbbl|m3}} per day.<ref name="USEnergy"/> Former Secretary of Energy [[Samuel Bodman]] announced the creation of this site in February 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.fossil.energy.gov/news/techlines/2006/06071-New_SPR_Site_Chosen.html |title = DOE Takes Next Steps to Expand Strategic Petroleum Reserve to One Billion Barrels |publisher = United States Department of Energy |date = December 8, 2006 |access-date = February 25, 2012 }}</ref> As of 2008, this site was facing some opposition.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyle-oil-reserve-mississippi-dc-idUKN0447984320080404 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160314091304/http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyle-oil-reserve-mississippi-dc-idUKN0447984320080404 |url-status = dead |archive-date = March 14, 2016 |title = Oil reserve site raises ire, Bush policy tested |publisher = Reuters |access-date = June 21, 2016 }}</ref> According to the DOE: "Activities towards the goal of expansion of the SPR to one billion barrels, as directed by Congress in the 2005 Act, were cancelled in 2011 after Congress rescinded all remaining expansion funds."<ref name=sprfaq />