Investigations on evaluating criteria of stabilities for energy (petroleum and natural gas) storage caverns in rock salt

Yanshilixue Yu Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2497-2505

  Wu, Wen ^a,b   Hou, Zheng Meng ^a,b   Yang, Chun He ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluating criteria; Petroleum and natural gas; Rock mechanics; Rock salt; Stability; Storage cavern

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; ENERGY STORAGE; NATURAL GAS; STABILITY;

EVALUATING CRITERIA; ROCK SALT; STORAGE CAVERN;

ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 23444458252     PISSN: 10006915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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