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Chapters: Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Oil and Gas Law in the United States, United States Oil Politics, Natural Gas in Alaska, Winning the Oil Endgame, Petroleum Administration for Defense District, Stock-Raising Homestead Act. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is an emergency fuel store of oil maintained by the United States Department of Energy. The US SPR is the largest emergency supply in the world with the current capacity to hold up to 727 million barrels (1.156E+8 m). The second largest emergency supply of oil is Japan's with a 2010 reported capacity of 583 million barrels (92,700,000 m). Also, China has begun construction and planning for an expansion of a SPR that will place their SPR at 685 million barrels by 2020, surpassing Japan. The current inventory is displayed on the SPR's website. As of August 31, 2009, the current inventory was 724 million barrels (115,100,000 m). This equates to 34 days of oil at current daily US consumption levels of 21 million barrels a day. At current market prices ($65 a barrel as of Oct '08) the SPR holds over $34.3 billion in sweet crude and approximately $51.2 billion in sour crude (assuming a $15/barrel discount for sulphur content). The total value of the crude in the SPR is approximately $85.5 billion USD. The price paid for the oil is $20.1 billion (an average of $28.42 per barrel). Purchases of crude oil resumed in January 2009 using revenues available from the 2005 Hurricane Katrina emergency sale. The DOE purchased 10.7 million barrels at a cost of $553 million. The United States started the petroleum reserve in 1975 after oil supplies were cut off during the 1973-74 oil embargo, to mitigate future temporary supply disruptions for example fallout with relati...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=167198 ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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STANDARDS RELATING TO FUELS, SOLVENTS, ENGINE TESTS, BURNER FUEL OILS, LUBRICATING OILS. CUTTING OILS, LUBRICATING GREASES, HYDRAULIC FLUIDS, MEASUREMENT AND SAMPLING LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GASES, LIGHT HYDROCARBONS, PLANT SPRAY OILS, SULTANATES, CRUDE PETROLEUM, PETROLATUM, WAX, GRAPHITE; CATALYSTS ... Read more