Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 119131

Oil: Reserves

Tabled: 9 March 2026
Answered: 17 March 2026
Named Day

Question

Robin Swann

Ulster Unionist Party — South Antrim

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.

Answer

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.