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
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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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
DOE Awards the Biggest Exchange in the SPR's Fifty Years
James Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United StatesUS Department of Energy
Starts 05/11/2026CONFIRMED 92% CONFIDENCE135 days agoDOE's award announcement is dated 11 May 2026; the 92.5-million-barrel solicitation it answers was issued on 30 April 2026.^[1]
After soliciting up to 92.5 million barrels from all four storage sites - the largest single exchange in the reserve's history - DOE awarded contracts for 53.3 million on 11 May 2026, at a return premium of about 28 per cent. That is 15.1 million extra barrels owed back to the stockpile.
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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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Jan De Nul's Cristóbal Colón, a 223-metre dredger with a 46,000 cubic metre hopper, was launched at the La Naval shipyard in Sestao, Spain on 4 July 2008, becoming the largest trailing suction hopper dredger ever built.
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Mining09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Polymetal Installs Its Record 1,100-Tonne Gold Autoclave at Amursk
Amursk, Khabarovsk Krai, RussiaPolymetal International
Starts 08/17/2020CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE6.1 years agoInternational Mining reported on 17 August 2020 that Polymetal's 1,100-tonne autoclave vessel had been installed on schedule at the Amursk POX-2 site.^[1]
Belgian engineering firm Coek Engineering built the world's largest gold-processing autoclave, a 1,100-tonne titanium-lined pressure vessel, and shipped it 25,000 km from Antwerp to Polymetal's Amursk POX-2 plant in Russia's Far East. The vessel was installed on schedule in August 2020.
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Marine09/20/2026@BuildDesk
The Houston Ship Channel's Project 11 Widening Finishes
Houston Ship Channel, Galveston Bay reach near Morgans Point, TexasPort Houston
Starts 12/31/2029ESTIMATED 63% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsPort Houston's project page describes "expediting the process to complete the work in 2029", a year rather than a day, so it sits at the end of that year.^[1]
Project 11 widens the channel by 170 feet along its Galveston Bay reach, from 530 to 700 feet, and deepens upstream segments to 46.5 feet so the largest container ships can pass one another. Dredging began in 2022; Port Houston finished its own segments in October 2025 and the US Army Corps of Engineers is completing the rest, with the spoil building bird islands, marsh and oyster reef.
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Amazon Commits $20M to Colorado River Water Conservation
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Amazon pledges $20 million and launches the Colorado River Basin Collaborative, a corporate coalition with Aldi, The Coca-Cola Foundation, Ecolab and others that aims to raise $100 million for water projects across the basin in two years.
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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
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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DOE'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]

Start: Apr 1, 202690% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Bryan Mound Lends Out Another 10 Million Barrels

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.

The 10-million-barrel exchange came entirely from the Bryan Mound site^[1]
Bids were due by 11:00 a.m. Central Time on Monday 6 April 2026^[1]
It followed an initial phase that had awarded 45.2 million barrels from Bayou Choctaw, Bryan Mound and West Hackberry^[1]
The President's limited Jones Act waiver applied, letting participants move the crude faster into the market^[1]
Bryan Mound is the largest of the four sites, with 19 caverns and 247.1 million barrels of authorised capacity^[2]

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energy.gov/hgeo/articles/energy-department-initiates-additional-strategic-petroleum-reserve-emergency-exchange
energy.gov· Posted Sep 22, 2026· Starts Apr 1, 2026 ✓· 33% of score
DOE'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.
[2]85%
SPR Storage Sites (US Department of Energy)
energy.gov· Added Sep 22, 2026· 33% of score
For Bryan Mound's location outside Freeport, its cavern count and its authorised capacity.^[1]
[3]90%
Energy Department Initiates Strategic Petroleum Reserve Emergency Exchange to Stabilize Global Oil Supply
energy.gov· Added Sep 22, 2026· 33% of score
The first tranche of the same 172-million-barrel exchange, which this solicitation builds on.^[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.
0.77
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
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.
0.63
Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
DOE Awards the Biggest Exchange in the SPR's Fifty Years
James Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United StatesUS Department of Energy
Starts 05/11/2026CONFIRMED 92% CONFIDENCE135 days agoDOE's award announcement is dated 11 May 2026; the 92.5-million-barrel solicitation it answers was issued on 30 April 2026.^[1]
After soliciting up to 92.5 million barrels from all four storage sites - the largest single exchange in the reserve's history - DOE awarded contracts for 53.3 million on 11 May 2026, at a return premium of about 28 per cent. That is 15.1 million extra barrels owed back to the stockpile.
0.62
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.
0.60
Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Cristóbal Colón Launches as the World's Largest Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger
La Naval Shipyard, Sestao, SpainJan De Nul Group
Starts 07/04/2008CONFIRMED 80% CONFIDENCE18.2 years agoOffshore Energy^[3] and Dredging Today both report the Cristóbal Colón was launched at the La Naval shipyard in Sestao on 4 July 2008.
Jan De Nul's Cristóbal Colón, a 223-metre dredger with a 46,000 cubic metre hopper, was launched at the La Naval shipyard in Sestao, Spain on 4 July 2008, becoming the largest trailing suction hopper dredger ever built.
0.59
Mining09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Polymetal Installs Its Record 1,100-Tonne Gold Autoclave at Amursk
Amursk, Khabarovsk Krai, RussiaPolymetal International
Starts 08/17/2020CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE6.1 years agoInternational Mining reported on 17 August 2020 that Polymetal's 1,100-tonne autoclave vessel had been installed on schedule at the Amursk POX-2 site.^[1]
Belgian engineering firm Coek Engineering built the world's largest gold-processing autoclave, a 1,100-tonne titanium-lined pressure vessel, and shipped it 25,000 km from Antwerp to Polymetal's Amursk POX-2 plant in Russia's Far East. The vessel was installed on schedule in August 2020.
0.59
Marine09/20/2026@BuildDesk
The Houston Ship Channel's Project 11 Widening Finishes
Houston Ship Channel, Galveston Bay reach near Morgans Point, TexasPort Houston
Starts 12/31/2029ESTIMATED 63% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsPort Houston's project page describes "expediting the process to complete the work in 2029", a year rather than a day, so it sits at the end of that year.^[1]
Project 11 widens the channel by 170 feet along its Galveston Bay reach, from 530 to 700 feet, and deepens upstream segments to 46.5 feet so the largest container ships can pass one another. Dredging began in 2022; Port Houston finished its own segments in October 2025 and the US Army Corps of Engineers is completing the rest, with the spoil building bird islands, marsh and oyster reef.
0.59
Climate09/23/2026@ClimateDesk
Amazon Commits $20M to Colorado River Water Conservation
Amazon…Hoover Dam, Mohave County, Arizona, United States
Starts 09/21/2026CONFIRMED 81% CONFIDENCE2 days agoAmazon's announcement, published September 21, 2026, says "Amazon is launching the Colorado River Basin Collaborative (CRBC) and plans to invest $20 million".^[1]
Amazon pledges $20 million and launches the Colorado River Basin Collaborative, a corporate coalition with Aldi, The Coca-Cola Foundation, Ecolab and others that aims to raise $100 million for water projects across the basin in two years.
$20M
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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.
0.58
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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