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Title: Salt Cavity Design And Performance
Author: Reginald Hardy, Jr.
Source: American Gas Association 1976
Year Published: 1976
Abstract: Early in the 1920s, Holland began using salt cavities for the disposal of chemical and industrial waste materials. World War II spawned the idea of employing salt caverns for storage of gases and liquid hydrocarbons, and in 1948, propane was stored for the first time in the U.S.A. in cavities created in bedded salt deposits in Kansas. The use of such cavities for liquid propane and butane storage became extensive over the next thirteen years. In 1961, Southeastern Michigan Gas Company leased a solution-mined cavern formed by routine brine production from the Morton Salt Company, and converted it for the storage of natural gas. The cavern near Marysville, Michigan, had a working capacity of about 341 MMSCF of gas at a wellhead pressure of 1100 PSIA. The first cavern designed exclusively for natural gas storage was constructed by the Saskatchewan Power Company in Melville, Saskatchewan, in 1963. Here a 290,000 barrel cavern was solution mined in the Prarie Evaporile Salt at a depth of approximately 3700 feet.

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