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Underground natural gas storage reservoir management: Phase 2. Final report, June 1, 1995--March 30, 1996

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Gas storage operators are facing increased and more complex responsibilities for managing storage operations under Order 636 which requires unbundling of storage from other pipeline services. Low cost methods that improve the accuracy of inventory verification are needed to optimally manage this stored natural gas. Migration of injected gas out of the storage reservoir has not been well documented by industry. The first portion of this study addressed the scope of unaccounted for gas which may have been due to migration. The volume range was estimated from available databases and reported on an aggregate basis. Information on working gas, base gas, operating capacity, injection and withdrawal volumes, current and non-current revenues, gas losses, storage field demographics and reservoir types is contained among the FERC Form 2, EIA Form 191, AGA and FERC Jurisdictional databases. The key elements of this study show that gas migration can result if reservoir limits have not been properly identified, gas migration can occur in formation with extremely low permeability (0.001 md), horizontal wellbores can reduce gas migration losses and over-pressuring (unintentionally) storage reservoirs by reinjecting working gas over a shorter time period may increase gas migration effects.

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Last Updated September 29, 2016, 15:39 (LMT)
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Citation Ortiz, I.; Anthony, R.V. ---- Roy Long, Underground natural gas storage reservoir management: Phase 2. Final report, June 1, 1995--March 30, 1996, 2016-09-29, https://edx.netl.doe.gov/dataset/underground-natural-gas-storage-reservoir-management-phase-2-final-report-june-1-1995-march-30
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Poc Email Roy.long@netl.doe.gov
Point Of Contact Roy Long
Program Or Project KMD
Publication Date 1996-12-31