Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Bayou Choctow Wellhead
Photo Date: January 1989
Photo Number: 228 052 002
Since 1976 DOE has been involved in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which consists of underground crude oil storage facilities. The Bayou Choctaw site is located on about 400 acres of land 12 miles southwest of Baton Rouge LA. More than 50 million barrels of crude oil are stored at this facility.
http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/doe_spr01.htm
Created by John Pike
Maintained by Webmaster
Updated Tuesday, December 30, 1997 10:19:25 AM