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 PartySouth 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.