New gas-storage facility exceeds design capacity
The Wilson natural gas storage facility, located in the Boling salt dome in Wharton Co., Texas, exceeded all design and contract specifications for injecting and withdrawing gas during its first 6 months of operation. The present facility, which contains two caverns, has the capacity to store 5 billion CF of gas including 3.5 billion CF of working gas and 1.5 billion CF of pad (cushion) gas used to maintain cavern pressures. Design deliverability is about 400 million CF/day for up to 9 days. During the 1981-82 winter heating season, actual injection rates reached 230 million CF day as compared to a design rate of 100 million CF/day; withdrawal rates exceeded 530 million SCF/day, or 32.5% above design. The volume of gas injected during these first 6 months totaled 29.8 billion CF, while the amount withdrawn was 26.75 billion. These volumes represented about 400% of the total usage that originally had been projected for the entire first year.
- OSTI ID:
- 6523046
- Journal Information:
- Oil Gas J.; (United States), Journal Name: Oil Gas J.; (United States) Vol. 80; ISSN OIGJA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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