Bayou Choctaw Strategic Petroleum Reserve
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| Part of the nation's Emergency Oil Stockpile, the Bayou Choctaw site holds 72 million barrels of crude oil. The site is connected to the St. James terminal on the Mississippi River by a 37-mile, 36-inch-diameter pipeline. The reserve originally consisted of four existing brine caverns converted to 46 million barrels of oil storage. A fifth cavern of 10-million-barrel capacity was obtained in 1985 through an exchange agreement with a local oil company. A new 10-million-barrel cavern was completed in 1990, and oil was transferred from one of the original four caverns. The original cavern was then enlarged to six million barrels of capacity. |
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12 miles SW of Baton Rouge, NW of Plaquemine
(POINT(-91.307973861694 30.316654560022))
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| Located in the Atchafalaya Basin 12 miles southwest of Baton Rouge. |
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http://cryptome.org/spr/spr-eyeball.htm
http://www.spr.doe.gov/default.htm
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