Office of Petroleum Reserves

**Mission and Vision** The mission of the Office of Petroleum Reserves (OPR) is to protect the United States from severe petroleum supply interruptions through the acquisition, storage, distribution, and management of emergency petroleum stocks, and to carry out the U.S. obligations under the International Energy Program. The OPR manages the operational readiness of two emergency stockpiles - the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), the United States’ crude oil stockpile; and the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve (NEHHOR), a one million barrel stockpile of ultra-low sulfur distillate (diesel/heating oil); the United States can rely on these emergency stockpiles to maintain a constant supply of crude oil and other petroleum products. OPR’s vision directly supports the Department of Energy's goal of energy dominance by ensuring energy security for America. **Goals** **Goal 1:** Maintain Operational Readiness to release crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve upon direction of the President or the Secretary. **Goal 2:** Place the highest priority on public health, workforce safety, and protection of the environment in the daily execution of mission requirements. **Goal 3:** Conduct regular assessments of U.S. petroleum distribution patterns to ensure that the Strategic Petroleum reserve drawdown capabilities are responsive to stakeholder requirements. **Goal 4:** Develop, analyze, evaluate, and implement a strategy to configure the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to meet long-term U.S energy security requirements. **Goal 5:** Share technical expertise, best practices, and lesson learned from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve operations with international partners in support of global petroleum stockpiling. **Goal 6:** Protect the Northeast U.S. from short-term supply shocks to the heating oil market through the use of the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve. **Goal 7:** Complete environmental cleanup and remediation of the formal Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 1.