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Title: Rock Mechanics Aspects Of The Design Of Salt Caverns For The Storage Of Natural Gas
Author: H. Reginald Hardy, Jr.
Source: American Gas Association 1982
Year Published: 1982
Abstract: There is little doubt that in the next 20 years, the utilization of caverns, from which salt has been extracted by conventional oi solution mining techniques, will play a vital role in supporting the worlds growing energy and environmental demands. Although the storage of liquids in salt caverns was initiated early in the 1920s, it was not until the mid 1960s that such facilities were utilized for storage of compressed natural gas. The first salt cavern in the United States developed specifically for natural gas storage was constructed in 1970 by the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line corporation in the Eminence Salt Dome in Covington County Mississippi (Anon., 1971). Recent statistics indicate that as of 1980 there are eight salt cavern storage faciUties for natural gas in operation in the U.S.A. and Canada involving a total of 19 separate storage caverns. It is expected that the use of such storage wilt increase considerably in the future.

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