Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve


The Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve was created on June 20, 2014 to provide a reserve of gasoline in the Northeastern United States. It contains 1 million barrels of gasoline.
The NGSR stores gasoline at three sites. 700,000 barrels are located in the New York Harbor area. 200,000 barrels are located in Boston and 100,000 barrels are located in South Portland, Maine.

History

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy left some New Yorkers without gasoline for 30 days. This caused the Obama administration to deputize Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to create the NGSR.
The Office of Petroleum Reserves established a 1 million barrel gasoline component of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The intent was to have enough gasoline in storage to avoid a disruption due to a hurricane or other event.