Underground Gas Storage Facilities
Underground Gas Storage Facilities

Author: Orin Flanigan

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 1995-06-07

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0080543391

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You get information needed to evaluate a reservoir, determine the particular requirements of the job, and design a storage facility that will operate at its full potential. Underground Gas Storage Facilities combines background information with a systematic approach for examining a specific reservoir to determine the most appropriate day-to-day method of operation. It presents a thorough discussion of topics such as estimating customer requirements, types of storage, sizing of surface facilities, and estimating deliverability. Of particular interest is the section on the economics of storage design, which examines the specific cost factors involved and presents examples to determine an economically optimum design. Information and technical tools to evaluate a reservoir Determine the particular requirements of the job at hand Design a storage facility that will operate at its full potential

Water Resource Applications, Underground Storage of Natural Gas, and Waste Disposal Using Underground Nuclear Explosions
Water Resource Applications, Underground Storage of Natural Gas, and Waste Disposal Using Underground Nuclear Explosions

Author: Gerald D. Cohen

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

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This report is a collection of three separate papers dealing with 'Water Resource Applications of Plowshare in the United States', 'Underground Storage of Natural Gas in Nuclear Cavities', and 'Waste Disposal'. The first of the papers was written by Gerald D. Cohen; the latter two by Francis M. Sand. During the writing of these reports a variety of difficulties were encountered in the economic evaluation of each of these peaceful applications of nuclear explosives among them difficulties in projecting potential demand for these processes, uncertainties regarding technical questions due to the lack of nuclear experiments in all three cases, and as a consequence quite some uncertainty must also be attached to the economic benefits and costs of these processes. The main results of the three reports are: In the case of Water Resource Applications within the United States, we concluded that on a national scale the United States is endowed with ample water resources. Only in selected regional situations water shortages appear imminent as the population increases. Extending present trends in water consumption and management, by the end of this century 22 river basins in the United States may not have local supplies of water sufficient to support further development. Four different approaches to solve this problem were proposed, and in each of them, nuclear explosives could be used at some stage: (1) Increase the storage capacity of water on or beneath the land surface. Such storage space could be created either by throwout and subsidence craters or by nuclear chimneys deep underground. The cost of crater reservoirs appears to be within feasible range. The main advantage of using nuclear chimneys for water storage is that they are not subject to the heavy evaporation losses of surface reservoirs.

Underground Gas Storage
Underground Gas Storage

Author: D. J. Evans

Publisher: Geological Society of London

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781862392724

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The UK became a net importer of natural gas in 2004 and by 2020 will import up to 90% of its requirements, leaving it vulnerable to increasing energy bills and risk of disruption to supply. New pipelines to Europe and improvements to interconnectors will meet some demand, but Government recognises the need for increased gas storage capacity: best met by the construction of underground storage facilities. Energy security has also raised the likelihood of a new generation of coal-fired power-stations, which to be environmentally viable, will require clean-coal technologies with near-zero greenhouse gas emissions. A key element of this strategy will be underground CO2 storage. This volume reviews the technologies and issues involved in the underground storage of natural gas and CO2, with examples from the UK and overseas. The potential for underground storage of other gases such as hydrogen, or compressed air linked to renewable sources is also reviewed.

Advanced Underground Gas Storage Concepts
Advanced Underground Gas Storage Concepts

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13:

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Over the past 40 years, cavern storage of LPG's, petrochemicals, such as ethylene and propylene, and other petroleum products has increased dramatically. In 1991, the Gas Processors Association (GPA) lists the total U.S. underground storage capacity for LPG's and related products of approximately 519 million barrels (82.5 million cubic meters) in 1,122 separate caverns. Of this total, 70 are hard rock caverns and the remaining 1,052 are caverns in salt deposits. However, along the eastern seaboard of the U.S. and the Pacific northwest, salt deposits are not available and therefore, storage in hard rocks is required. Limited demand and high cost has prevented the construction of hard rock caverns in this country for a number of years. The storage of natural gas in mined caverns may prove technically feasible if the geology of the targeted market area is suitable; and economically feasible if the cost and convenience of service is competitive with alternative available storage methods for peak supply requirements. Competing methods include LNG facilities and remote underground storage combined with pipeline transportation to the area. It is believed that mined cavern storage can provide the advantages of high delivery rates and multiple fill withdrawal cycles in areas where salt cavern storage is not possible. In this research project, PB-KBB merged advanced mining technologies and gas refrigeration techniques to develop conceptual designs and cost estimates to demonstrate the commercialization potential of the storage of refrigerated natural gas in hard rock caverns. DOE has identified five regions, that have not had favorable geological conditions for underground storage development: New England, Mid-Atlantic (NY/NJ), South Atlantic (DL/MD/VA), South Atlantic (NC/SC/GA), and the Pacific Northwest (WA/OR). PB-KBB reviewed published literature and in-house databases of the geology of these regions to determine suitability of hard rock formations for siting storage caverns, and gas market area storage needs of these regions.

Projections of Cost of Development of U.S. Natural Gas Potential, Volume 2, Appendicies
Projections of Cost of Development of U.S. Natural Gas Potential, Volume 2, Appendicies

Author: H. C. Kent

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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The principle objective of this study was to develop a method to evaluate the relative costs of development of the natural gas resource potential which has been estimated to exist in the United States by the Potential Gas Committee. Based on the method developed, the project has then attempted to calculate such costs of development for those geologic provinces within the lower 48 states of the United States where sufficient data were judged to be available to provide a meaningful basis for cost calculations. The calculated relative costs are primarily useful in making comparisons between the various geographic areas and the various depths in which the gas resource is expected to occur. Secondarily, these relative cost data provide the basis for making meaningful comparisons between the costs of alternative sources of natural gas, including so-called unconventional resources, and between the costs of natural gas and other energy sources.