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Temperature and pressure variations in salt caverns used for oil reserve during storage process

  • Chuan Liang Song*
  • , Yu Fei Tan
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Temperature and pressure variations have important significance in environmental protection and safty operation of oil reservoir in salt caverns. Shrinkage of salt caverns, effect of permeability and fluid thermal pressurization rate were discussed and coupled to predict volume lost of salt caverns, variation of temperature and pressure of fluids in oil storage caverns.The coupled model is illustrated by a calculation example,which based on the geological data from SPR(American Strategic Petroleum Reserve) and Jintan underground gas storage with salt caverns.This example shows that the temperature difference between fluid injected and stored has elimated after ten years storage, the value of pressure built up has reached 4.7MPa, the rate volume lost of 0.023% per year. The result indicates temperature changed slowly in salt cavern, yet thermal pressurization and permeability have great influence on pressure history of salt caverns. The shrinkage of salt caverns caused by salt creep is the leading factor of pressure building-up in salt caverns.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 International Conference on Energy and Environment Technology, ICEET 2009
Pages602-605
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 International Conference on Energy and Environment Technology, ICEET 2009 - Guilin, China
Duration: 16 Oct 200918 Oct 2009

Publication series

Name2009 International Conference on Energy and Environment Technology, ICEET 2009
Volume3

Conference

Conference2009 International Conference on Energy and Environment Technology, ICEET 2009
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuilin
Period16/10/0918/10/09

Keywords

  • Creep
  • Permeability introduction
  • Strategic Petroleum Reserve(SPR)
  • Thermal pressurization rate

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