Geological Feasibility of Underground Oil Storage in Jintan Salt Mine of China

A number of large underground oil storage spaces will be constructed in deep salt mines in China in the coming years. According to the general geological survey, the first salt cavern oil storage base of China is planned to be built in Jintan salt mine. In this research, the geological feasibility of the salt mine for oil storage is identified in detail as follows. The characteristics of regional structure, strata sediment, and impermeable layer distribution of Jintan salt mine were evaluated and analyzed. The tightness of cap rock was evaluated in reviews of macroscopic geology and microscopic measuring. According to the geological characteristics of Jintan salt mine, the specific targeted formation for building underground oil storage was chosen, and the sealing of nonsalt interlayers was evaluated. Based on the sonar measuring results of the salt caverns, the characteristics of solution mining salt caverns were analyzed. In addition, the preferred way of underground oil storage construction was determined. Finally, the results of closed well observation in solution mining salt caverns were assessed. The research results indicated that Jintan salt mine has the basic geological conditions for building large-scale underground oil storage.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Advances in Materials Science and Engineering

• Publication date

  2017-06-14

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Environmental Science, Engineering, Geology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1155/2017/3159152
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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