{"id":47022,"date":"2026-08-16T17:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47022"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:47:17","slug":"depleted-strategic-oil-reserve-nears-level-that-raises-concerns-about-damage-to-caverns-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47022","title":{"rendered":"Depleted strategic oil reserve nears level that raises concerns about damage to caverns, operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/08\/15\/strategic-petroleum-reserve-spr-oil-iran-war-caverns.html?ICID=ref_fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/108019387-17234886382024-08-12t164547z_1236018828_rc2fe9a5jnbx_rtrmadp_0_usa-oil-spr.jpeg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:178px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The rapid drawdown of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve could damage the caverns that store the oil, experts warn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/08\/15\/strategic-petroleum-reserve-spr-oil-iran-war-caverns.html\">Depleted strategic oil reserve nears level that raises concerns about damage to caverns, operations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>tl;dr: dropping below 300mbbl, which is soon if not now, can cause destruction to the caverns.  but tfg&#8217;s admin sez wrong, it&#8217;s 70mbbl.  we&#8217;ll know soon if draw down continues, planned to hit ~243mbbl in a few month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>allegedly here&#8217;s where the 4 sites are:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-4-1024x702.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47027\" style=\"width:371px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-4-1024x702.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-4-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-4-768x526.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-4-1226x840.png 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-4-675x463.png 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-4.png 1516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rapid drawdown of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve could damage the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[33,57],"class_list":["post-47022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-oil","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47029,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47022\/revisions\/47029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}