Site tests validate benefits of cavern probes

Journal Article · Sun Mar 09 23:00:00 EST 1997 · Oil and Gas Journal

OSTI ID:449630

Crossley, N G ^[1]

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1. TransGas Ltd., Regina, Saskatchewan (Canada)

More than 5 years` experience with downhole probes has allowed TransGas Ltd., Regina, to monitor and evaluate cavern integrity. The devices access natural-gas storage caverns` pressures and temperatures. Acquired data have helped determine gas-in-place inventory volumes, confirm spatial volumes, and assess changes in spatial volumes that may have resulted from cavern creep (shrinkage or closure) or downhole abnormality such as fluid infill or collapse of the side walls or roof areas. This conclusion of two articles presents details and results of a specific storage-site. The first article presented background and many of the details and lessons of TransGas` cavern gas-storage probe program.

• OSTI ID: 449630
• Journal Information: Oil and Gas Journal, Journal Name: Oil and Gas Journal Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 95; ISSN OIGJAV; ISSN 0030-1388
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

03 NATURAL GAS
FIELD TESTS
NATURAL GAS
ON-LINE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS
RESERVOIR PRESSURE
RESERVOIR TEMPERATURE
SASKATCHEWAN
STORAGE FACILITIES
UNDERGROUND STORAGE
VERIFICATION