While the expansion of the gas market does and will continue to foster the search for new gas reserves in areas of acute need, development of new ideas, new techniques and new concepts for gas storage must be explored if the industry is to meet the long range requirements of the expanding gas market. Storage of natural gas in subsurface but nonporous media has recently been suggested. Storage in dissolved salt caverns, in mined or natural caverns, in underground cavities induced by nuclear explosions and underwater storage have all been subject to studies in order to evaluate their engineering...
While the expansion of the gas market does and will continue to foster the search for new gas reserves in areas of acute need, development of new ideas, new techniques and new concepts for gas storage must be explored if the industry is to meet the long range requirements of the expanding gas market. Storage of natural gas in subsurface but nonporous media has recently been suggested. Storage in dissolved salt caverns, in mined or natural caverns, in underground cavities induced by nuclear explosions and underwater storage have all been subject to studies in order to evaluate their engineering possibility and economic feasibility. Analysis and evaluation of all these new concepts for potential use in gas storage is the object of this three year research program.