{"id":831781,"date":"2026-03-17T13:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/831781\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:04:32","slug":"spain-to-release-11-5-million-barrels-from-oil-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/831781\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain to release 11.5 million barrels from oil reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Spain has approved the release of up to 11.5 million barrels of oil from its strategic reserves over the next 90 days to ease supply shortages. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"423\" data-end=\"601\">Energy Minister Sara Aagesen said the move comes in response to disruptions linked to the partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"603\" data-end=\"826\">The release will be carried out in phases, with the first shipments expected to begin within 15 days.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"603\" data-end=\"826\">The plan aligns with efforts by the International <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/tesla-partners-with-lg-on-michigan-battery-facility\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Energy<\/a> Agency to unlock up to 400 million barrels globally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/aysel-mammadzada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Aysel Mammadzada<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain has approved the release of up to 11.5 million barrels of oil from its strategic reserves over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,83210,2661,238670,104,40883],"class_list":["post-831781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-hormuz","tag-oil","tag-sara-aagesen","tag-spain","tag-strait"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116244661546131972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}