The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) reaches its lowest level since 1982, as crude oil stored in the government facility declines further. According to reporting that cites the most recent weekly data, SPR inventories fall to about 285 million barrels, continuing a multi-year drawdown.
The outlets agree on the scale and direction of the change, though they frame the significance slightly differently. Quartz and Yahoo Finance both describe the drop as the lowest since 1982 and highlight the prior-year comparison. Quartz specifies that inventories are down from about 405 million barrels a year earlier. Both accounts attribute the update to the weekly stock figures, without detailing in the provided excerpts the specific operational decisions behind the draw or any changes to policy.
