VOL. XLIV

No 44

29 October 2001

SUPPLY/DEMAND

Expanding SPR Now May Add To OilMarket Uncertainty, Says Poten & Partners

David Johnson, the director of theplanning and engineering office for the SPR, said at an oil conference in Beijingon 23 October that the Bush administration had taken into consideration anon-binding resolution recently passed by Congress urging the StrategicPetroleum Reserve (SPR) to be expanded to 1bn barrels and was discussing thepossibility of filling the reserve to its...