Energy Security, Oil Shocks and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)

Principal Objectives of the Project

The work in this area includes:
  • Studies of Strategic Petroleum Reserve size and drawdown policies.
  • Reviews of the macroeconomic costs of oil price disruptions.
  • Studies of the social costs of oil use and imports.
  • (Oil Fires, Oil Wells, and the Defense of Oil)

    Documentation and Reports

    You can download papers and reports:

        Oil Imports Costs and Benefits

        Macroeconomic Cost of Oil Price Shocks     Strategic Petroleum Reserves (To get the Adobe Acrobat reader software, go to Adobe).

    Project Coordinator: Paul Leiby
     

    Paul N. Leiby, ORNL, <leibypn@ornl.gov>

     

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Other pages of interest

  • SPR Description.

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