Man-made salt caverns are an integral
part of the US energy infrastructure. The entire strategic
petroleum reserve, totaling more than 600 million barrels of crude
oil, is stored in salt caverns on the Gulf Coast. In addition,
there are more than 600 million barrels of hydrocarbons owned by
private industry including hydrogen, natural gas, natural gas
liquids, olefins, refined products and crude oil stored in salt
caverns in the US and Canada. This high-deliverability storage is a
critical logistical link between the natural gas, gas processing,
petrochemical and refining industries. Salt cavern storage is a
technology that is well known, well developed, very acceptable to
the com
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