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Oil: Reserves

Asked by Robin SwannUlster Unionist PartyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled Answered 17 March 2026UIN 119131

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what volume of the Republic of Ireland's national strategic oil reserve is held in UK-based storage.

Answered by Michael Shanks

Ireland's National Oil Reserves Agency (NORA) is a commercial entity that holds some oil stocks in Northern Ireland. Details of these stockholdings are commercially sensitive. It would be for NORA to provide any further details about them.

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