Report: Expansion of Natural Gas Storage in the Twentieth Century Journal Article

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After that, in 1916, the Zoar field in New York state - which had been discovered in 1888 - was converted into a natural gas storage reservoir with a storage capacity of 17 million cubic meters, and it is still in use today. Although all projects were implemented on old depleted oil and gas fields, the first project using saline aquifers1 as the second type of UGS was put into operation in the state of Illinois, USA, in 1953 with a capacity of 300 million cubic meters. Distribution of various types of underground gas reservoirs in the world Currently, 605 underground gas storage reservoirs are operating in 33 countries worldwide with a storage capacity of 303 billion cubic meters. An examination of the operational storage volume of these reservoirs indicates an average volume of 550 million cubic meters per reservoir implemented in depleted hydrocarbon fields. Although the geology of hydrocarbon reservoirs and aquifers is similar, the use of such reservoirs for storage requires a larger volume of non-cushion gas and more precise monitoring and control of reservoir performance during withdrawal and injection cycles. Therefore, for a correct comparison, we have conventionally considered half of the maximum withdrawal capacity from UGS as the gas supply source so that the share of UGS in the gas arena can be determined based on the average daily gas consumption of each country. 0. If we judge based on the consumption statistics in 2004 and the extracted parameter, the withdrawal capacity from UGS resources for Iran should be determined as 170 million cubic meters per day.