Underground caverns in rock salt deposits are the most secure disposal method and a type of gas-storing facility. Gas storage plays a vital role in ensuring that a strategic relationship is secured between an established energy infrastructure provider and a midstream energy company. The Fischells Brook area is a pillow-shaped body of salts located in the St. George's Bay area of southwest Newfo...

CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE (CCS) IS A TECHnology being developed in an attempt to slow global warming. In theory, CCS would prevent carbon dioxide produced from coal-fired power plants from reaching the atmosphere by capturing and storing it permanently underground. The scale of this proposal is remarkable, requiring the capture of tens of billions of tons of carbon dioxide from thousands of co...

During the past 50 years the Bureau de Recherche Géologiques et Minières, (BRGM) has collected a large amount of diverse data during projects for water and h ydrocarbons exploration and underground storage investigations (methane, nuclear-waste, etc.). Societal and environmental issues have had a significant influence on research applied to groundwater exploration and characterization. During t...

Rock engineering constructions are widely attested in energy mining, geothermal development, and underground storage projects [...]

Carbon dioxide capture and geological storage is a technology that could be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere from large industrial installations such as fossil fuel-fired power stations by 80-90%. It involves the capture of carbon dioxide at a large industrial plant, its transport to a geological storage site and its long-term isolation in a geological storage reservoir...

Underground storage of natural gas represents an efficient solution to cover fluctuations in consumption during the cold season and/or special situations like emergencies. The paper aims presents underground storages technologies saline deposits and depleted reservoirs, as well pros cons features using those methods..

The Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State is the location of the largest nuclear waste storage area in the United States. Since plutonium production facilities at Hanford were shut down in 1987,cleaning up the leftover waste at the Hanford Site has become one of the largest environmental cleanup projects in history. Legal, political, technical, and social aspects of the cleanup contribu...