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There's a pretty big amount at the bottom of the SPR that's unusable sludge.
Would you not rotate stock? I don't know why any supply would be first-in-last-out. We shouldn't be describing a reserve that is one container the size of a lake.
https://www.energy.gov/hgeo/opr/spr-quick-facts
"The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), owned and operated by the U.S. Department of Energy, is a federally managed network of four sites located along the Gulf Coasts of Texas and Louisiana. Each site contains deep underground storage caverns carved into natural salt domes, engineered to securely hold large volumes of crude oil."
There are 61 total caverns.
I mean no one ever thought that putting it in a place where the integrity gets worse the less you have, so I'd imagine not a lot of thought is happening.