Design review for Strategic Petroleum Reserve office, Big Hill, Texas, New Orleans, Louisiana
The Big Hill Strategic Petroleum Reserve storage site is designed to store 140 million barrels of oil in underground storage caverns. The major facilities of the Big Hill Strategic Petroleum Reserve storage site are: the main operations area; the storage cavern area; the Raw Water Intake Structure at the Intracoastal Waterway; the raw water pipeline between the Big Hill operations area and Raw Water Intake Structure; the brine disposal pipeline from the Big Hill complex to 3-1/2 miles into the Gulf of Mexico; and, the crude oil pipeline between the Sunoco Terminals in Nederland and Big Hill Complex. These facilities are designed to solution mine the storage caverns from naturally occurring salt domes below the Big Hill complex site, as well as, to transport the crude oil in and out of the caverns to/from the Sunoco Terminals. Bechtel Petroleum, Inc. through Bechtel Advanced Technologies has been engaged to conduct a review of the design of the Big Hill facilities. The purpose of this design review is to audit design and construction documents to: ensure that the design complies with established design criteria; ensure the constructability of the design; and ensure that the interfaces between the construction packages are adequate. To this end, Bechtel was provided with construction contract packages, most design calculations and various pre-design documents. A summary of the scope of each contract package can be found on Table I.
- Research Organization:
- Bechtel Petroleum, Inc., Houston, TX (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21403
- OSTI ID:
- 5809455
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/OR/21403-T2; ON: DE85012545
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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