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Strategic Petroleum Reserve

DOE - SPR

This page contains official documents related to RIK activities.

In his 2007 State of the Union message, President Bush announced his intention to increase the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) - the world's largest supply of emergency crude oil - to 1.5 billion  barrels by 2027.  SPR oil is stored in huge underground salt caverns along the coastline of  the Gulf of Mexico.  At the present time, the reserve holds about 700 million barrels of crude oil.  The minerals Management Service (MMS) and the Department of Energy work together to fill and maintain the SPR.

Oil from the MMSs Royalty in Kind (RIK) program - by which royalties from oil production are accepted in kind (oil) rather than in value (cash) - is used to fill the reserve.

 

Phase Eleven

  • Invitation for Offer pdf 
    Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill
    Transportation of Royalty in Kind Crude Oil to Market Centers
    Solicitation No.  MMS-RIKOIL-2009-SPR-002
    Sale Period:  April 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009
    Offers Due: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 (10:00am MT)

Phase Ten

  • Invitation for Offer pdf 
    Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill
    Transportation of Royalty in Kind Crude Oil to Market Centers
    Solicitation No.  MMS-RIKOIL-2008-SPR-002
    Sale Period:  July 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008
    Offers Due: April 29, 2008 (10:00am MT)

Phase Nine

  • Invitation for Offer pdf 
    Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill
    Transportation of Royalty in Kind Crude Oil to Market Centers
    Solicitation No.  M08PX15014 
    Sale Period:  January 1, 2008 through June 30, 2008
    Offers Due: October 30, 2007 (10:00am MT)

Phase Eight

  • Invitation for Offer pdf 
    Revised April 25, 2007
    Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill
    Transportation of Royalty in Kind Crude Oil to Market Centers
    Solicitation No.  M07PX14954 
    Sale Period:  July 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007
    Offers Due: May 1, 2007 (10:00am MT)

Phase Seven

  • Invitation for Offer pdf 
    Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill
    Exchange of Royalty in Kind Crude Oil to Market Centers
    Solicitation No.  1435-02-05-RP-25849 
    Sale Period:  April 1, 2005 through September 30, 2005
    Offers Due: January 31, 2005 (2:00pm MT)

Phase Six

  • Revised Invitation for Offer pdf
    Revised July 22, 2004

    Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill
    Exchange of Royalty in Kind Crude Oil to Market Centers
    Solicitation No.  1435-02-04-RP-40473 
    Sale Period:  October 2004 through March 2005
    Offers Due: July 26, 2004 (2:00pm MT)
  • Dear Operator Letter - Effective October 1, 2004 pdf 
    • Includes awarded property listing

Phase Five

  • Second Amended IFO as of January 27, 2004
    Invitation for Offer pdf 
    Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill
    Exchange of Royalty in Kind Crude Oil to Market Centers
    Solicitation No
    1435-02-03-RP-40443
    Sale Period:  April 2004 through September 30, 2004
    Offers Due: February 2, 2004 (2:00pm MT)
  • Dear Operator Letter - Effective April 1, 2004 pdf 
    • Includes awarded property listing

Phase Four

  • Invitation for Offer pdf 
    Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill
    Exchange of Royalty in Kind Crude Oil to Market Centers
    Solicitation No
    1435-02-03-RP-40419
    Sale Period:  October 2003 through March 2004
    Offers Due: August 4, 2003 (10:00am MT)

Phase Three

  • Invitation for Offer pdf
    Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill
    Exchange of Royalty in Kind Crude Oil to Market Centers
    Solicitation No.  1435-02-03-RP-40403 
    Sale Period:  April 2003 through September 2003/March 2004
    Offers Due: January 27, 2003

Phase Two

  • Amended Invitation for Offer pdf
    Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill
    Exchange of Royalty in Kind Crude Oil to Market Centers
    Solicitation No.  1435-02-02-RP-40380 
    Sale Period:  October 2002 through March 2003
    Offers Due: July 24, 2002

  • Invitation for Offer pdf
    Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill
    Exchange of Royalty in Kind Crude Oil to Market Centers
    Solicitation No.  1435-02-02-RP-40370   
    Sale Period:  April 2002 through March 2003
    Offers Due: January 31, 2002

Phase One

List of Awarded Properties:
 

RIK Dear Operator Letters

Dear Operator Letters - Individual letters to specific operators regarding specific RIK properties may vary slightly and are not posted to this site.  Letters to operators are based on these samples.

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