The First 412,000 Barrels Go Underground at West Hackberry
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEDOE'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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