This book contains the proceedings of NATO Advanced Study Institute, 'Underground
Storage of Natural Gas - Theory and Practice', which was held at The Middle East Technical
University, Ankara, Turkey during 2-10 May 1988.
Underground storage is the process which effectively balances a variable demand market
with a desirably constant supply provided by pipelines.
Storage reservoirs are the unique warehouses designed and developed to provide a ready
supply of natural gas in response to high, peak demands during cold weather. The natural
gas is injected into the underground storage environment when the market demand falls
below the supply available from the pipeline. It is withdrawn from the storage reservoir
to supplement the steady supply provided by the pipelines whenever the demand exceeds the
supply. The overall wellbeing of the entire western world in general and of the NATO
member countries in particular depend critically upon having sufficient energy resources.
Of over 80 quad Btus of energy consumed each year in the western world, about 30% comes
from natural gas, a figure only exceeded by oil. The technology related to supply and
demand of natural gas has been in the focus of long range energy planning during the last
decade in Western Europe.
In view of recent developments related to natural gas in Europe and Turkey, an
"Advanced Study Institute" programme in Turkey on underground storage of natural
gas was deemed particularly relevant and timely.
With gas supplied from the North Sea, Soviet Union and The Netherlands via pipelines
snd from Algeria in the form of LNG to NATO countries in Europe, underground storage
becomes not only desirable but necessary and essential for several reasons: ;
1. Considerations of strategic stockpile to protect against possible supply
interruptions
2. Considerations of 'pipeline economies' and 'peak shaving' near weather dependent
markets
3. To increase logistical efficiency of pipe-lines through better load factors as
related to curtailed or interrupted service from off shore platforms
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface Part I. MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE AND INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS
John D. Kobasa
Management'a Perspective on Underground Gas Storage
Hans-Guenter Haddenhorst
Underground Storage of Natural Gas
Michel Dussaud
Review of World Wide Storage Projects
Hana Oebro
Underground Gas Storage in Denmark An Overview
Emilio Sotomayor
Needs for Underground Storage of Natural Gas in Spain. Prospects, Potentials and
Developments:
The Serrablo Field
Part II THEORY AND PRACTICE
M. Yavuz Corapcioglu and Sorab Panday
Fundamental Equations for Transport Processes in Storage Reservoirs
T. Ertekin
Dual-Mechanism Gas Flow Dynamics in Single- and Dual-Porosity Systems
Guy Fasanino and Gilbert Meunier
Geoatatistics Applied to Underground Gas Storage
M. R. Tek
Deliverability of Natural Gas
Paul E. Oren, R. L. Lee, M. D. Stevenson, and M. R. Tek The Development of a
Generalized Drawdown Equation for Real Gas Flow Including the Effects of Wellbore Storage
and Turbulence
Richard W. Mantia
Inventory Verification Isopore Volumetric Method
Werner Toelcke
Use of Pulse Test Technique and Reservoir Simulation for Developing Aquifer Storage
C. Marx
Drilling and Completion Problems Related to Underground Gas Storage Wells
Hans Guenter Haddenhorst
Storage of Natural Gas in Salt Caverns
P. V. de Laguerie
Underground Storage of Liquefied Gases at Low Temperature
Hans-Guenter Haddenhorst
Compressed Air Energy Storage (Peak Shaving Plant Neuenhuntorf)
I. R. Ellul
Computer-Aided Pipeline Facilities and Control Systems
Part III RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Guy Fasanino and Jean-Eric Molinard
Mechanism of Gas-Water Flow in Storage Reservoirs
Guy Fasanino and Oean-Eric Molinard Two-Phase Flow Simulation
Guy Fasanino and 3ean-Eric Molinard
Mixing in Underground Gas Storage
Dennis D. Coleman
Geochemical Fingerprinting;
Identification of Storage Gas Using Chemical and laotopic Analysis
Dennis D. Coleman
Establishing a Data Base for Gas Identification
D. C. Shaw
Numerical Simulation of Miscible Displacement Processes in Gas Storage Reservoirs
Michel Dussaud
New Techniques in Underground Storage of Natural Gas in France
Part IV CASE HISTORIES
Siegfried Meister
Case Histories in Underground Storage
- Underground Storage Reitbrook near Hamburg, FRG
- Underground Storage Schmidhausen near Munich, FRG
- Aquifer Storage Kalle Weatemsland, FRG
Richard N. Mantia
West Unionville Storage Field A Case History of Gas Migration
M. R. Tek
Huntsman and West Engelland Fields A Case History of Gas Migration
Subject Index Author Index
Hardcover
458 pages