reserves

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In March, the International Energy Agency announced the release of 400 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserves of member countries.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

Energy Information Administration calculates that China’s strategic reserves stood at about 1.4 billion barrels of oil late last year.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Like many of Brazil’s rare-earth deposits, Viridis’s reserves are found in clay, which executives say is cheaper and easier to process than the hard-rock deposits common in Australia and elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Besjana Guri, the founder of environmental NGO Lumi, said demonstrators were also calling for the suspension of an amendment that allowed "massive construction" inside nature reserves such as Zvernec.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

There was also the problem, demonstrated by Rutherford and Soddy early in the century, that Earthly elements hold huge reserves of heat–much too much to allow for the sort of cooling and shrinking Suess suggested.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson