WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich issued the following news release:
Heinrich: "I am deeply concerned by reports that recent drawdowns of the SPR could damage the salt caverns that hold millions of barrels of America's emergency crude"
WASHINGTON - Last week, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, pressed U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright to disclose information on the operational safety and structural integrity of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), which has been depleted to under 300 million barrels of emergency inventory due to Trump's war with Iran. Repeated drawdowns can harm salt caverns where millions of barrels of the SPR's...