Horizontal natural gas caverns in thin-bedded rock salt formations

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 6973-6985

  Xing, Wei ^a,b   Zhao, Juan ^a   Hou, Zhengmeng ^a,b   Were, Patrick ^a   Li, Mengyao ^b   Wang, Guan ^b  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cavern convergence; Cavern design; Horizontal cavern; Thin bedded rock salt; Underground gas storage

Indexed keywords

CAVES; DEPOSITS; DOMES; NATURAL GAS; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; ROCKS; SALT DEPOSITS;

BEDDED ROCK; CAVERN CONVERGENCE; CAVERN DESIGNS; GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; HORIZONTAL CAVERN; LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS; NATURAL GAS STORAGE; OPERATION PARAMETERS;

UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE;

EID: 84937759064     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4410-y     Document Type: Article

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