Developing the Boling salt dome gas storage facility

Journal Article · · Well Serv; ()

OSTI ID:6938586

An increasingly important method of reducing winter natural gas shortages is storing gas near heavy-use regions. The numerous salt domes along the Gulf of Mexico provide ideal underground storage sites. Valero Gas Storage Co., a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corp., is developing and will fill 2 storage caverns in a dome near Boling (Wharton County), Texas. The facility, including storage and pad gas, currently is expected to cost approx. $49 million. The salt dome, one of the largest such salt domes in the world, is located conveniently approx. 4-1/2 miles from a major marketing pipeline operated by Valero Transmission Co. This line can feed a pipeline network leading to the general Houston area and connects to a 36-in line in Ellis County that supplies N. Texas and to a 20-in line that supplies S. Texas.

• OSTI ID: 6938586
• Journal Information: Well Serv; (), Journal Name: Well Serv; () Vol. 20:4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

03 NATURAL GAS
035000* -- Natural Gas-- Storage-- (1989-)
CAVITIES
CONSTRUCTION
COST
ENERGY SOURCES
ENERGY SYSTEMS
FEDERAL REGION VI
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GASES
NATURAL GAS
NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS
NORTH AMERICA
PIPELINES
SALT CAVERNS
STORAGE
STORAGE FACILITIES
TEXAS
UNDERGROUND STORAGE
USA