Slurry wall seals brine reservoir
To keep 25 million bbl of brine handy for displacing crude oil from temporary storage in salt dome cavities, developers are building a reservoir in Louisiana's environmentally sensitive Bayou Country using a dike of compacted reef shells and sand, sealed with a slurry cutoff wall keyed into clay. The $35-million brine-reservoir contract is one of more than 200 contracts let for the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP). The Port, set to start operation in 1981, will be the first in the US able to directly unload deep-draft supertankers that require water as much as 90 ft deep. Crude oil unloaded at the terminal 19 miles offshore will be piped to temporary storage in a complet of 8 cavities in the Clovelly salt dome. Most of the brine produced when freshwater is used to dissolve the salt is piped out to the Gulf. However, 25 million bbl has to be saved as a medium for displacing the oil.
- OSTI ID:
- 6170007
- Journal Information:
- Eng. News-Rec.; (United States), Vol. 204:2
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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