Talk:Global strategic petroleum reserves
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Does Iran have a strategic petroleum reserve?Patchouli 15:57, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I've seen nothing on Iran or any other oil-exporting country having a SPR. Usually, the oil-exporting countries don't need a SPR since they have enough already on hand to handle any supply disruptions from either their commercial oil companies or their government oil companies. So I guess you could say they have an informal SPR of whatever oil is being readied for export--in an emergency the respective government could just stop exporting and use their domestic stock.Publicus 14:45, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] References
I added the cleanup-references tag to flag the following recommendations:
- Converting inline external links to Wikipedia:Footnotes using the <ref> tag mechanism.
- I assume some of the sites mentioned in "External links" document some of the otherwise unreferenced claims in the article. It's important to match up claims and sources so readers can easily find out exactly where a particular fact is coming from.
-- Beland 20:33, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Beland, when you have a chance can you check out the references again. I tried to clean them up. Thanks. Publicus 20:21, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sure...I've marked specific claims that don't have any footnotes pointing to a source. Some of these are the same as I've previously marked and I'm not sure why these marks were removed. If these sources are already on the page, there should be multiple footnotes pointing to the same note. Many of the claims are also non-specific with regard to date. There should be an "as of ____" for each size claim. Time words like "recently" (as in the line about Thailand's reserve) are not useful because we don't know when that part of the article was last updated. That should just mention a specific date instead, which we could look up if we knew the source for this claim. -- Beland 21:45, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reserves or inventory?
I guess the fact that the article links to oil reserves is an obvious misunderstanding. SPR is an oil inventory, rahter then oil reserve, which has a different meaning (nicely dicribed in the linked article about oil reserves). I am correcting this. Insert non-formatted text here
[edit] Why all in the South?
Does anyone know why all of the US reserves are in sites in the Southern states? It isn't that important, but it would surely make more sense to spread them out around the country...
WikiReaderer 18:55, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
The main reason for the US SPR reserve location has to do with the port of Houston and the surrounding refinery facilities. That's where all the commercial oil is so that's where the US placed their SPR. This is kind of standard practice for most SPRs, usually they're located very close to commercial facilities. Publicus 22:50, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
- Also, the salt domes that contain much of the reserve were already conveniently available. Cheers Geologyguy 00:24, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
