India! India is offering tax breaks to companies storing crude there, and also building new storage facilities
- India lacks a strategic petroleum reserve
- Foreign oil companies get tax breaks when they store crude in the country
The country is building underground caverns that can be used to store petroleum
- a state-owned Indian company is working to build three caverns with 5.3 million metric tons of capacity, or about 12 days worth of supply
- The first cavern has been completed and filled with oil
- Two others are scheduled to come online in spring
- Plans call for another 12.5 million metric tons of storage capacity in a second round of expansion to add an extra 28 days of supply to national reserves
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