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
The First 412,000 Barrels Go Underground at West Hackberry
US Department of EnergyWest Hackberry Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Hackberry, Cameron Parish, LA 70645, United States
Starts 07/21/1977CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE49.2 years agoDOE's own 40th-anniversary piece gives the day: "On July 21, 1977, the SPR received its first oil delivery."^[1]
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve took its first delivery on 21 July 1977: about 412,000 barrels of Saudi Arabian light crude, pumped into salt caverns near Lake Charles, Louisiana. Construction had started that April, when the government bought up existing caverns along the Gulf Coast rather than wait to dig its own.
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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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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
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
Trump Orders 172 Million Barrels Out as Hormuz Chokes
US Department of EnergyJames Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United States
Starts 03/11/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE196 days agoDOE's press release carries Secretary Wright's statement and is dated 11 March 2026, the day the IEA agreed the collective release.^[1]
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.
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Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk
Sable Restarts Santa Ynez Pipeline Oil Flow Under DPA Order
Sable Offshore…Las Flores Canyon, Santa Barbara County, California, 93463, United States
Starts 03/14/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE193 days agoStated as accomplished fact, per sableoffshore.com^[1]: "on March 14, 2026, the Company resumed the transportation of hydrocarbons (oil) produced at the Santa Ynez Unit ... through the ... Santa Ynez Pipeline System".
Sable Offshore resumed shipping crude from Las Flores Canyon to Pentland Station through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System on March 14, 2026, complying with a Defense Production Act order issued by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The company expects first sales by April 1, 2026 at a gross oil rate of 50,000 Bbls/d, which it says would raise domestic crude supply into the California market by about 17%.
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Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk
Babcock & Wilcox Wins $40 Million Scrubber Contract at Canadian Refinery
1200, East Market Street, East End, Goodyear Heights, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, 44305, United StatesBabcock & Wilcox…
Starts 12/19/2025CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE278 days agoStated as done in the release datelined "AKRON, Ohio – December 19, 2025": B&W "announced today that it has been awarded a $40 million contract".^[1]
B&W will supply low-pressure wet gas scrubbing, ExxonMobil technology it licenses, to cut sulfur dioxide from a major Canadian petroleum refinery's catalytic cracker and coker units. The $40 million contract adds $30 million to a $10 million first order from September.
$40M
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
The Buckhorn Exchange Opens in Denver
Buckhorn Exchange, 1000, Osage Street, La Alma–Lincoln Park, Denver, Colorado, 80204, United StatesBuckhorn Exchange
Starts 11/17/1893CONFIRMED 75% CONFIDENCE132.8 years agoThe article's infobox gives the exact day, 17 November 1893.^[1]
Henry Zietz opened the Buckhorn Exchange on 17 November 1893 across from the rail yards, and it holds Colorado liquor licence number one. The walls carry several hundred mounted animals and the menu still runs to elk, buffalo and rattlesnake.
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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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DOE's award announcement is dated 17 April 2026; the solicitation it answers was issued on 9 April 2026.^[1]

Start: Apr 17, 202690% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

West Hackberry Lends 26 Million Barrels of Sweet Crude

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.

The solicitation of 9 April 2026 sought up to 30 million barrels of sweet crude, all of it from West Hackberry, with bids due on 13 April^[2]
Contracts for 26 million barrels were awarded on 17 April 2026, with deliveries beginning immediately^[1]
The borrowed barrels are to be returned with additional premium barrels by the following year^[1]
Earlier exchange actions had already awarded about 55 million barrels from Bayou Choctaw, Bryan Mound and West Hackberry^[2]
More than 10 million barrels had reached the market by the time of the award^[1]

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energy.gov/hgeo/opr/articles/energy-department-awards-new-contracts-strategic-petroleum-reserve-advancing
energy.gov· Posted Sep 22, 2026· Starts Apr 17, 2026 ✓· 33% of score
DOE's award announcement is dated 17 April 2026; the solicitation it answers was issued on 9 April 2026.
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Energy Department Continues Initiating Strategic Petroleum Reserve Emergency Exchanges
energy.gov· Added Sep 22, 2026· 33% of score
The 9 April solicitation these contracts answer: the volume sought, the site and the bid deadline.^[1]
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SPR Storage Sites (US Department of Energy)
energy.gov· Added Sep 22, 2026· 33% of score
For West Hackberry's location in Cameron Parish and its 220.4 million barrels of authorised capacity.^[1]

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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
The First 412,000 Barrels Go Underground at West Hackberry
US Department of EnergyWest Hackberry Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Hackberry, Cameron Parish, LA 70645, United States
Starts 07/21/1977CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE49.2 years agoDOE's own 40th-anniversary piece gives the day: "On July 21, 1977, the SPR received its first oil delivery."^[1]
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve took its first delivery on 21 July 1977: about 412,000 barrels of Saudi Arabian light crude, pumped into salt caverns near Lake Charles, Louisiana. Construction had started that April, when the government bought up existing caverns along the Gulf Coast rather than wait to dig its own.
0.66
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.
0.62
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.
0.60
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.
0.60
Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
Trump Orders 172 Million Barrels Out as Hormuz Chokes
US Department of EnergyJames Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United States
Starts 03/11/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE196 days agoDOE's press release carries Secretary Wright's statement and is dated 11 March 2026, the day the IEA agreed the collective release.^[1]
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.
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Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk
Sable Restarts Santa Ynez Pipeline Oil Flow Under DPA Order
Sable Offshore…Las Flores Canyon, Santa Barbara County, California, 93463, United States
Starts 03/14/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE193 days agoStated as accomplished fact, per sableoffshore.com^[1]: "on March 14, 2026, the Company resumed the transportation of hydrocarbons (oil) produced at the Santa Ynez Unit ... through the ... Santa Ynez Pipeline System".
Sable Offshore resumed shipping crude from Las Flores Canyon to Pentland Station through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System on March 14, 2026, complying with a Defense Production Act order issued by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The company expects first sales by April 1, 2026 at a gross oil rate of 50,000 Bbls/d, which it says would raise domestic crude supply into the California market by about 17%.
0.59
Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk
Babcock & Wilcox Wins $40 Million Scrubber Contract at Canadian Refinery
1200, East Market Street, East End, Goodyear Heights, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, 44305, United StatesBabcock & Wilcox…
Starts 12/19/2025CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE278 days agoStated as done in the release datelined "AKRON, Ohio – December 19, 2025": B&W "announced today that it has been awarded a $40 million contract".^[1]
B&W will supply low-pressure wet gas scrubbing, ExxonMobil technology it licenses, to cut sulfur dioxide from a major Canadian petroleum refinery's catalytic cracker and coker units. The $40 million contract adds $30 million to a $10 million first order from September.
$40M
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
The Buckhorn Exchange Opens in Denver
Buckhorn Exchange, 1000, Osage Street, La Alma–Lincoln Park, Denver, Colorado, 80204, United StatesBuckhorn Exchange
Starts 11/17/1893CONFIRMED 75% CONFIDENCE132.8 years agoThe article's infobox gives the exact day, 17 November 1893.^[1]
Henry Zietz opened the Buckhorn Exchange on 17 November 1893 across from the rail yards, and it holds Colorado liquor licence number one. The walls carry several hundred mounted animals and the menu still runs to elk, buffalo and rattlesnake.
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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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