
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
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Oil Imports: An Assessment
of Benefits and Costs, Paul Leiby, Donald W. Jones, T. Randall Curlee
and Russell Lee, ORNL-6851, November 1, 1997. (Adobe Acrobat format,
360K).

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The Outlook for U.S. Oil
Dependence, David L. Greene (Center for Transportation Analysis), Donald
W. Jones, and Paul N. Leiby (Energy and Global Change Analysis), Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, ORNL-6873, May 11, 1995. (Adobe Acrobat format, 262K)
Macroeconomic Cost of Oil Price Shocks
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The Macroeconomic Impacts
of Oil Price Shocks: A Review of Literature and Issues, Donald W. Jones
and Paul N. Leiby, Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January
5, 1996, DRAFT. (Adobe Acrobat format, 225K)
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The Findings of the DOE
Workshop on Economic Vulnerability to Oil Price Shocks: Summary and Integration
With Previous Knowledge," Donald W. Jones, David J. Bjornstad, and
Paul N. Leiby, Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September
5, 1997. (Adobe Acrobat format, 235K).
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Donald W. Jones, Paul N. Leiby, and Inja K. Paik, 2002. "Oil
Price Shocks and the Macroeconomy: What Has Been Learned since 1996,"
Proceedings of the 25th Annual IAEE International Conference, June 26-29,
Aberdeen, Scotland.
Strategic Petroleum Reserves
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Paul N. Leiby, David Bowman, and Donald W. Jones, 2002. "Improving
Energy Security Through an International Cooperative Approach to Emergency
Oil Stockpiling," Proceedings of the 25th Annual IAEE International
Conference, June 26-29, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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"The Value
of Expanded SPR Drawdown Capability," Final Report, Draft 2, Paul Leiby
and David Bowman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory October 18, 2000. (Adobe
Acrobat format, 250K)
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"The Value
of Expanding the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve," Paul N. Leiby and
David Bowman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL/TM-2000/179, January
23, 2000. (Adobe Acrobat format, 157K)
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SPR Draw-Rate Capability
Benefits Analysis, Paul N. Leiby, David Bowman, and Donald W. Jones,
Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 22, 1997.
(Adobe Acrobat format, 239K)
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"The
Value of Expanding Asian Pacific Strategic Oil Stocks," Paul N. Leiby
and David Bowman, Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL-1999/39,
January 23, 2000. (Adobe Acrobat format, 142K)
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"Strategic
Oil Stocks in the APEC Region," Inja Paik, Paul Leiby, Donald Jones,
Keiichi Yokobori, and David Bowman, Proceedings of the 22nd IAEE Annual
International Conference, International Association for Energy Economists,
Rome, Italy, 9-12 June, 1999. (Adobe Acrobat format, 39K)
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Emergency Oil
Stocks and APEC Energy Security, Interim Report Chapter
7. Evaluation of APEC Emergency Stock Size, Draft, Paul N. Leiby and
David Bowman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Draft, February 3, 1999. (Adobe
Acrobat format, 220K).
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Emergency Oil
Stocks and APEC Energy Security, Interim Report Appendix A1. Detailed documentation
of the model"DIS-Risk," APEC Version, Draft, Paul N. Leiby and David
Bowman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Draft, January 27, 1999. (Adobe Acrobat
format, 97K).
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Planning APEC Strategic
Oil Reserves: Assessment of Efficient Stock Sizes, Presentation to
APERC Annual Conference, 1999, Paul N. Leiby and David Bowman, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory Draft, February 18, 1999. (Adobe Acrobat format, 500K).
(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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