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Storage of liquid hydrocarbons in salt dome caverns

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6447418
Liquid hydrocarbons are stored in salt dome caverns containing brine after first stripping the brine of contaminating gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide by sparging a decontaminating gas such as nitrogen into the brine and removing the nitrogen and the contaminating gases from the salt dome cavern.
Assignee:
Shell Oil Co
Patent Number(s):
US 4365978
OSTI ID:
6447418
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English