国外地下水封岩洞石油库的建设与发展

Construction and Development of Underground Water-sealed Mined Storage Caverns Abroad: A Review

概述了国外地下水封岩洞石油库60余年的建设与发展过程,介绍了亚洲、非洲和欧洲大型地下水封岩洞石油库的建设计划,并将地下水封岩洞储油库与地上储油库进行了比对,结果表明,水封岩洞储油库在安全、储存容量、经济性和环保等方面更优于地上储油罐。

The first underground storage for gas was operated in 1910 in a depleted oilfield, but it is only since the Second World War that the technique of underground storage has been developed on a worldwide scale. Under appropriate conditions, underground storage has proved to be cheaper, safer and environmentally more acceptable than the conventional alternatives. The growth of oil consumption, coupled with political complications and seasonal demands has in the past increased the pressures for larger storage capacities which,in turn, improved the economics of going underground. At the same time, knowledge about rock behavior and the techniques of excavation have made rapid progress so that new methods of underground storage have been developed. There are about more than 60 underground water-sealed mined storage caverns.