Ensuring the stability and integrity of underground gas storage salt caverns is a very complicated subject due to the non-linear and time-dependent behavior of rock salts under complicated thermal and mechanical loading conditions. For this reason, pressure and temperature fluctuations in the caverns and their surrounding strata must be integrated into the analysis and the numerical tools that ...

The current study describes the extracellular hydrolytic activities of halophilic bacteria isolated from subterranean rock salt. The estimated number of grown colonies was approximately 3000 per gram of a rock salt on the surface of the medium MH containing 10% NaCl. The investigated strains, randomly selected from the colonies observed on the plate, showed at least one of the tested extracellu...

MgM2O4 (M = Mn, Fe, Co) spinels, which transform into rock-salt phases on Mg incorporation, are attractive cathode materials for future battery applications. In this study, we investigated the energetics and reconstruction of spinel surfaces using first-principles calculations. We found that spinels stabilized when atoms in topmost layer occupied rock-salt-like sites. With an increase number at...

This paper describes the application of a new methodology to estimate permeability of clastic rock formations based on the numerical simulation of the physics of mudfiltrate invasion. The methodology assumes a key well with a complete suite of well logs and rock-core laboratory measurements of porosity, permeability, capillary pressure, and relative permeability. For additional wells in the sam...

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...

Haloarchaea are salt loving microorganisms isolated from saline environments including ancient salt deposits and rock salt. A few haloarchaeal species have been reported to produce bacteriorhodopsin (BR) which works as a light driven proton pump. A haloarchaeal strain Halostagnicola larsenii IBS (MCC 2956) isolated from commercial Indian black salt (IBS) sample was employed for optimization of ...