Gas storage and operations in single-bedded salt caverns: Stability analyses

SPE Production and Operations

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 368-376

  Han, Gang ^a   Bruno, Mike ^b   Lao, Khang ^b   Young, Jean ^b   Dorfmann, Luis ^c  

^a HESS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Terralog Technologies Incorporated   (Canada)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREEP; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; STIFFNESS; VISCOPLASTICITY;

GAS STORAGE CAPACITY; GEOTECHNICAL DESIGN; SINGLE-BEDDED SALT CAVERNS;

GAS FUEL STORAGE;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREEP; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); GAS FUEL STORAGE; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; STIFFNESS; VISCOPLASTICITY;

CAVERN; COULOMB CRITERION; CREEP; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GAS STORAGE; MOHR THEORY; NATURAL GAS; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; PRESSURE EFFECT; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548403459     PISSN: 19301855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/99520-PA     Document Type: Conference Paper

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