Management Control Procedures for Safeguarding and Maintaining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Energy legislation required the Department of Energy (DOE) to create a strategic petroleum reserve to substantially reduce the Nation's vulnerability to interruptions of foreign petroleum supplies. As part of a current review the following items were examined: the oil withdrawal capabilities at each of the existing storage sites, the status of the security measures taken or planned, and, to a limited extent, the measures taken to account for reserve oil losses or gains.