Crude oil storage in salt domes

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1978 · API Transp. Dep. Annu. Pipeline Conf. Pap.; (United States)

OSTI ID:7037844

Medley, A H

A discussion of plans for crude oil storage in salt dome caverns for the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve and for the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Inc. (LOOP) covers: the scope and nature of U.S. salt domes in Louisiana and Texas; the existence of the salt as a hard plastic, which makes the salt able to yield under stress rather than spall or cave; 28 yr of development and use of leached caverns for storage of light hydrocarbons; the scope of the planned Strategic Petroleum Reserve with 125 million bbl underground by 1979 and eventually 1 billion bbl; selection of a 10 million bbl capacity for a new cavern base size, with a 15 in. cased hole to achieve the specified emptying in 150 days; the LOOP program at the Clovelly Dome planned for 8 caverns initially and up to 14 later, each having vertical axes of about 1100 ft spaced in a manner to permit individual cavern growth to 5 million bbl, with diameters reaching 190 ft and separating salt walls of 380 ft min; the capability of receiving or delivering 100,000 bbl/hr through five 30 in. dia holes per cavern, and the advantages of underground crude storage.

• Research Organization: Fenix and Scisson Inc.
• OSTI ID: 7037844
• Report Number(s): CONF-7804209-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: API Transp. Dep. Annu. Pipeline Conf. Pap.; (United States)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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