Operators of underground storage (UGS) facilities rely on accurate and reliable failure and near miss data as a resource to understand existing or emerging threats and to identify where additional research may be needed to enhance safety and reliability at these facilities.
This report describes the contents of a comprehensive Microsoft (MS) Excel database of under-ground storage (UGS) failure and near miss incidents. The database captures underground storage-related incidents from depleted oil & gas reservoir, aquifer, and salt cavern facilities in the United States, Canada, and Europe...
This report describes the contents of a comprehensive Microsoft (MS) Excel database of under-ground storage (UGS) failure and near miss incidents. The database captures underground storage-related incidents from depleted oil & gas reservoir, aquifer, and salt cavern facilities in the United States, Canada, and Europe sourced from publicly available literature and participating, anonymous operators. This report is an update of Contract PR727-23700 that was finalized July 11, 2024. This report includes new failure and near miss incidents since the original report’s publication date, additional database fields, and normalized incident rates that can be used for hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies and risk analysis.
This document aims to help subsurface engineers, well integrity specialists, and risk managers involved in UGS operations understand and improve key practices involved in the design, construction, operations, maintenance, and integrity management of underground storage assets through trending and lessons learned from the reported incidents. PRCI, through a pilot program, will be converting the MS Excel database deliverable from this project into an online, searchable database hosted by PRCI. The online database can then be used by member companies to continually populate the UGS failure and near miss database with new incidents, perform queries to identify trends, and use the information to help justify integrity management actions.
A spreadsheet and corresponding End User License Agreement (EULA) is included in the document.