{"id":24346,"date":"2026-10-20T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/20\/us-strategic-oil-reserves-fall-to-lowest-level-in-40-years\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:00:21","slug":"us-strategic-oil-reserves-fall-to-lowest-level-in-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/20\/us-strategic-oil-reserves-fall-to-lowest-level-in-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"US Strategic Oil Reserves Fall to Lowest Level in 40 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States&#8217; strategic crude oil reserves have fallen to 282.7 million barrels, the lowest level since October 1982. The sharp decline is the result of an order by Donald Trump, the former US president, to release about 172 million barrels from the strategic reserves.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken to counter major disruptions to global oil supplies, particularly after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The shutdown of this vital passage raised concerns about energy supplies in the global market, prompting the US to draw on its strategic reserves to help meet domestic demand and support global markets.<\/p>\n<p>The US strategic oil reserve, regarded as a key backstop for the country&#8217;s energy security, had generally been maintained since previous energy crises, but the new conditions have led to an unprecedented decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US strategic oil reserves have fallen to 282.7 million barrels, their lowest level since October 1982, after a major release ordered by Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}