Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
Biden Starts the Largest Drawdown in the Reserve's History
US Department of EnergyJames Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United States
Starts 03/01/2022CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE4.6 years agoDOE's press release is dated 1 March 2022, the day the President authorised the release; the notice of sale followed on 2 March.^[1]
Four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden ordered crude out of the SPR as the US share of an IEA release of 60 million barrels. It did not stop there: by that summer 180 million barrels had gone, the biggest emergency sale the reserve had ever made, and it left the stockpile at levels not seen since the 1980s.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
DOE Puts 86 Million Barrels Up for Exchange at Once
US Department of EnergyJames Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United States
Starts 03/13/2026CONFIRMED 92% CONFIDENCE194 days agoDOE's press release announcing the RFP is dated 13 March 2026 and gives the bid deadline of 5:00 p.m. CT on 17 March 2026.^[1]
The first tranche of the 172-million-barrel release went out as a request for proposals on 13 March 2026, covering 86 million barrels from Bryan Mound, West Hackberry and Bayou Choctaw. Bids were due the following Tuesday, and the borrowers must hand the oil back with extra barrels on top.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
Katrina Empties 11 Million Barrels From the Reserve
US Department of EnergyBryan Mound Strategic Petroleum Reserve, 1900 Bryan Mound Road, Freeport, Brazoria County, TX 77541, United States
Starts 09/02/2005CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE21.1 years agoDOE dates the President's Finding of a Severe Energy^[2][3] Supply Interruption to 2 September 2005; the White House fact sheet announcing the 30-million-barrel release is dated the next day.
Hurricane Katrina shut in about half of US domestic oil production and knocked out refineries and import terminals, so on 2 September 2005 President Bush found a severe energy supply interruption and ordered a sale. DOE offered 30 million barrels and sold 11 million; the first oil left Bryan Mound on 26 September.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
The IEA's Libya Action Sells 30.6 Million Barrels of SPR Crude
James Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United StatesUS Department of Energy
Starts 06/23/2011CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE15.3 years agoSecretary Chu announced the coordinated release on 23 June 2011 and the notice of sale followed the next day; DOE's update of 30 June reports the bidding.^[1]
With Libyan production off the market, the International Energy Agency put 60 million barrels into it on 23 June 2011, and the US share came out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The auction was heavily oversubscribed: more than 90 offers came in for 30.2 million barrels of light sweet crude, and 15 companies took delivery.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
The Reserve Falls Below 300 Million Barrels, Its Lowest Since 1983
US Department of EnergyJames Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United States
Starts 08/10/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE44 days agoThe figure comes from the Energy^[3] Department's weekly stocks data released on Monday 10 August 2026, as reported the same day.
Weekly Energy Department data published on 10 August 2026 put the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at 298.7 million barrels, down 6.1 million in a week and the lowest reading in the EIA series since January 1983. The stockpile had held about 415 million barrels before the Iran war began.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
Desert Storm Triggers the SPR's First Emergency Drawdown
James Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United StatesUS Department of Energy
01/16/1991 - 04/03/1991CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE35.7 years agoDOE dates the authorisation to Bush's address of 16 January 1991 and the last of the 17.3 million barrels to 3 April 1991; the pin's exclusive end is the following midnight UTC.^[1]
Hours after announcing allied air attacks on Iraq, President Bush ordered the first emergency sale in the reserve's history. The Energy Department released its sales notice on 17 January 1991 and eventually sold 17.3 million barrels to 13 companies, half of what it offered: bids for sour crude came in too low to accept.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
West Hackberry Lends 26 Million Barrels of Sweet Crude
US Department of EnergyWest Hackberry Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Hackberry, Cameron Parish, LA 70645, United States
Starts 04/17/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE159 days agoDOE's award announcement is dated 17 April 2026; the solicitation it answers was issued on 9 April 2026.^[1]
DOE had asked for up to 30 million barrels of sweet crude from West Hackberry on 9 April 2026; eight days later it awarded contracts for 26 million of them, with deliveries starting at once. By then more than 10 million barrels of the wider exchange had already reached the market.
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Policy05/01/2023@ThePinGang
California regulators on Friday voted to ban the sale of new diesel big rigs by 2036 and require all trucks to be zero-emissions by 2042
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Starts 01/01/2042 ESTIMATED 77% CONFIDENCEin 15.3 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…p class="paragraph"> The new mandate is estimated to deliver $26.5 billion in public health ben…"
The new mandate is estimated to deliver $26.5 billion in public health benefits in California in avoided health impacts and deaths due to diesel pollution.
The mandate would require companies that operate 50 or more trucks to convert their fleets into electric or hydrogen models and achieve zero-emissions by 2042.
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Infrastructure09/14/2026@BuildDesk
New York Harbor Storm Surge Plan
Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York, USAUS Army Corps of Engineers
Starts 12/31/2044ESTIMATED 67% CONFIDENCEin 18.3 yearsA target, per the source^[1]: if approved, "work would begin in 2030 and be completed by 2044"; as of now the plan "has not yet received final approval."
The US Army Corps of Engineers is advancing a $52.6BN plan of storm-surge gates, sea walls and levees around New York Harbor, after shelving a more radical $119BN 'mega sea wall' spanning the harbor mouth.
$52.6B
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Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk
Babcock & Wilcox Sells Allen-Sherman-Hoff to Andritz for $29 Million
1200, East Market Street, East End, Goodyear Heights, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, 44305, United StatesBabcock & Wilcox…
Starts 10/31/2025CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE327 days agoStated as done, per B&W's 8-K: "On October 31, 2025, ... [the Sellers] completed the sale to Andritz^[3] AG"; B&W's release of 4 November says it "has sold its Allen-Sherman-Hoff (A-S-H) business".
B&W sold its Allen-Sherman-Hoff ash-handling business to a subsidiary of Austria's Andritz for $29 million, a step to finish paying down its debt and focus on power generation, including plants for AI data centres. B&W keeps selling A-S-H and Diamond Power products to utilities as Andritz's sales representative.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
Bryan Mound Lends Out Another 10 Million Barrels
US Department of EnergyBryan Mound Strategic Petroleum Reserve, 1900 Bryan Mound Road, Freeport, Brazoria County, TX 77541, United States
Starts 04/01/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE175 days agoDOE's press release announcing the RFP is dated 1 April 2026 and sets the bid deadline at 11:00 a.m. CT on Monday 6 April 2026.^[1]
DOE went back to the market on 1 April 2026 for a third exchange, this one drawn entirely from the Bryan Mound caverns outside Freeport, Texas. Bidders had until the following Monday, and a limited Jones Act waiver let them move the crude on foreign-flagged ships to get it to refiners faster.
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DOE's press release carries Secretary Wright's statement and is dated 11 March 2026, the day the IEA agreed the collective release.^[1]

Start: Mar 11, 202690% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Trump Orders 172 Million Barrels Out as Hormuz Chokes

Thirty-two IEA member nations agreed on 11 March 2026 to release 400 million barrels between them after Iranian attacks slowed tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The American share was 172 million barrels, the largest US release ever ordered, and Secretary Wright said it would take about 120 days to deliver.

Thirty-two IEA member nations agreed on 11 March 2026 to a coordinated release of 400 million barrels of oil and refined products^[1]
The US share was 172 million barrels, beginning the following week and taking about 120 days to deliver at planned discharge rates^[1]
Wright said the US had arranged to more than replace the barrels - about 200 million, or 20% more than would be drawn down - within the next year and at no cost to taxpayers^[1]
The SPR held about 415 million barrels when the release was ordered, up from roughly 395 million a year earlier^[2]
Unlike the 1991, 2005, 2011 and 2022 drawdowns, this one was executed as exchanges: refiners borrow the crude and return it with premium barrels^[2]

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energy.gov/articles/united-states-release-172-million-barrels-oil-strategic-petroleum-reserve
energy.gov· Posted Sep 22, 2026· Starts Mar 11, 2026 ✓· 33% of score
DOE's press release carries Secretary Wright's statement and is dated 11 March 2026, the day the IEA agreed the collective release.
[2]95%
Energy Department Initiates Strategic Petroleum Reserve Emergency Exchange to Stabilize Global Oil Supply
energy.gov· Added Sep 22, 2026· 33% of score
The first solicitation two days later, which states the reserve's level and explains the exchange structure the release is being run through.^[1]
[3]80%
Oil in US Strategic Petroleum Reserve falls to lowest level since 1983 (Fox Business)
foxbusiness.com· Added Sep 22, 2026· 33% of score
Independent reporting on the Hormuz disruption and what the release did to inventories over the following months.^[1]

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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
Biden Starts the Largest Drawdown in the Reserve's History
US Department of EnergyJames Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United States
Starts 03/01/2022CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE4.6 years agoDOE's press release is dated 1 March 2022, the day the President authorised the release; the notice of sale followed on 2 March.^[1]
Four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden ordered crude out of the SPR as the US share of an IEA release of 60 million barrels. It did not stop there: by that summer 180 million barrels had gone, the biggest emergency sale the reserve had ever made, and it left the stockpile at levels not seen since the 1980s.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
DOE Puts 86 Million Barrels Up for Exchange at Once
US Department of EnergyJames Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United States
Starts 03/13/2026CONFIRMED 92% CONFIDENCE194 days agoDOE's press release announcing the RFP is dated 13 March 2026 and gives the bid deadline of 5:00 p.m. CT on 17 March 2026.^[1]
The first tranche of the 172-million-barrel release went out as a request for proposals on 13 March 2026, covering 86 million barrels from Bryan Mound, West Hackberry and Bayou Choctaw. Bids were due the following Tuesday, and the borrowers must hand the oil back with extra barrels on top.
0.69
Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
Katrina Empties 11 Million Barrels From the Reserve
US Department of EnergyBryan Mound Strategic Petroleum Reserve, 1900 Bryan Mound Road, Freeport, Brazoria County, TX 77541, United States
Starts 09/02/2005CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE21.1 years agoDOE dates the President's Finding of a Severe Energy^[2][3] Supply Interruption to 2 September 2005; the White House fact sheet announcing the 30-million-barrel release is dated the next day.
Hurricane Katrina shut in about half of US domestic oil production and knocked out refineries and import terminals, so on 2 September 2005 President Bush found a severe energy supply interruption and ordered a sale. DOE offered 30 million barrels and sold 11 million; the first oil left Bryan Mound on 26 September.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
The IEA's Libya Action Sells 30.6 Million Barrels of SPR Crude
James Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United StatesUS Department of Energy
Starts 06/23/2011CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE15.3 years agoSecretary Chu announced the coordinated release on 23 June 2011 and the notice of sale followed the next day; DOE's update of 30 June reports the bidding.^[1]
With Libyan production off the market, the International Energy Agency put 60 million barrels into it on 23 June 2011, and the US share came out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The auction was heavily oversubscribed: more than 90 offers came in for 30.2 million barrels of light sweet crude, and 15 companies took delivery.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
The Reserve Falls Below 300 Million Barrels, Its Lowest Since 1983
US Department of EnergyJames Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United States
Starts 08/10/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE44 days agoThe figure comes from the Energy^[3] Department's weekly stocks data released on Monday 10 August 2026, as reported the same day.
Weekly Energy Department data published on 10 August 2026 put the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at 298.7 million barrels, down 6.1 million in a week and the lowest reading in the EIA series since January 1983. The stockpile had held about 415 million barrels before the Iran war began.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
Desert Storm Triggers the SPR's First Emergency Drawdown
James Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United StatesUS Department of Energy
01/16/1991 - 04/03/1991CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE35.7 years agoDOE dates the authorisation to Bush's address of 16 January 1991 and the last of the 17.3 million barrels to 3 April 1991; the pin's exclusive end is the following midnight UTC.^[1]
Hours after announcing allied air attacks on Iraq, President Bush ordered the first emergency sale in the reserve's history. The Energy Department released its sales notice on 17 January 1991 and eventually sold 17.3 million barrels to 13 companies, half of what it offered: bids for sour crude came in too low to accept.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
West Hackberry Lends 26 Million Barrels of Sweet Crude
US Department of EnergyWest Hackberry Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Hackberry, Cameron Parish, LA 70645, United States
Starts 04/17/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE159 days agoDOE's award announcement is dated 17 April 2026; the solicitation it answers was issued on 9 April 2026.^[1]
DOE had asked for up to 30 million barrels of sweet crude from West Hackberry on 9 April 2026; eight days later it awarded contracts for 26 million of them, with deliveries starting at once. By then more than 10 million barrels of the wider exchange had already reached the market.
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Policy05/01/2023@ThePinGang
California regulators on Friday voted to ban the sale of new diesel big rigs by 2036 and require all trucks to be zero-emissions by 2042
California Air Resources Board
Starts 01/01/2042 ESTIMATED 77% CONFIDENCEin 15.3 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…p class="paragraph"> The new mandate is estimated to deliver $26.5 billion in public health ben…"
The new mandate is estimated to deliver $26.5 billion in public health benefits in California in avoided health impacts and deaths due to diesel pollution.
The mandate would require companies that operate 50 or more trucks to convert their fleets into electric or hydrogen models and achieve zero-emissions by 2042.
0.59
Infrastructure09/14/2026@BuildDesk
New York Harbor Storm Surge Plan
Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York, USAUS Army Corps of Engineers
Starts 12/31/2044ESTIMATED 67% CONFIDENCEin 18.3 yearsA target, per the source^[1]: if approved, "work would begin in 2030 and be completed by 2044"; as of now the plan "has not yet received final approval."
The US Army Corps of Engineers is advancing a $52.6BN plan of storm-surge gates, sea walls and levees around New York Harbor, after shelving a more radical $119BN 'mega sea wall' spanning the harbor mouth.
$52.6B
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Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk
Babcock & Wilcox Sells Allen-Sherman-Hoff to Andritz for $29 Million
1200, East Market Street, East End, Goodyear Heights, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, 44305, United StatesBabcock & Wilcox…
Starts 10/31/2025CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE327 days agoStated as done, per B&W's 8-K: "On October 31, 2025, ... [the Sellers] completed the sale to Andritz^[3] AG"; B&W's release of 4 November says it "has sold its Allen-Sherman-Hoff (A-S-H) business".
B&W sold its Allen-Sherman-Hoff ash-handling business to a subsidiary of Austria's Andritz for $29 million, a step to finish paying down its debt and focus on power generation, including plants for AI data centres. B&W keeps selling A-S-H and Diamond Power products to utilities as Andritz's sales representative.
0.58
Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
Bryan Mound Lends Out Another 10 Million Barrels
US Department of EnergyBryan Mound Strategic Petroleum Reserve, 1900 Bryan Mound Road, Freeport, Brazoria County, TX 77541, United States
Starts 04/01/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE175 days agoDOE's press release announcing the RFP is dated 1 April 2026 and sets the bid deadline at 11:00 a.m. CT on Monday 6 April 2026.^[1]
DOE went back to the market on 1 April 2026 for a third exchange, this one drawn entirely from the Bryan Mound caverns outside Freeport, Texas. Bidders had until the following Monday, and a limited Jones Act waiver let them move the crude on foreign-flagged ships to get it to refiners faster.
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