Defense Production Act determination on domestic petroleum capacity

In a memorandum to the Secretary of War, Trump determined that "domestic petroleum production, refining, and logistics capacity, including exploration and production, gathering and transmission pipelines, storage, and marine terminals" are "essential to the national defense". The memorandum cites "constrained financing, long lead times, permitting and infrastructure bottlenecks, and supply chain limitations". It waives the requirements of section 303(a)(1)-(a)(6) of the Act "for the purpose of expanding such capability".