China to Greatly Expand Petroleum Reserves

Thu Sep 13 18:45:37 -0700 2007
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China is implementing a plan to build an official state sponsored domestic oil reserve to a one month supply by 2010. They estimate this will be 94.8 million barrels. After that, they want to expand it further into a three month supply over the next decade following. Until recently only some of the private companies maintained any sort of reserve.

.."China began filling its strategic oil reserves just over a year ago and now has between 2 million and 3 million tons on hand, Chen was quoted as saying."...more, backups are always a good idea, there

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Fri Sep 14 09:03:58 -0700 2007
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China is thinking about having a strategic coal reserve also