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Engineers and Constructors of Underground Storage and Related Facilities
 


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Some of our current projects include:
- Hard rock storage caverns , Singapore.
- Hydrogen storage cavern, TX.
- 40 Bcf natural gas storage facility, UK.
- Acid gas (H2S/CO2) storage cavern facility, Canada.
- Hard rock storage cavern, WV.
- Compressed air energy (CAES) location screening studies.
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The combined experience of PB Energy Storage Services (formerly PB-KBB),  Fenix & Scisson
and Sofregaz US comprises an unparalleled list of accomplishments.

  • Constructed the first natural gas storage cavern in salt in the U.S.
  • Designed and/or constructed most of the US's natural gas storage caverns in domal salt.
  • Constructed first compressed air energy storage (CAES) project in the U.S.
  • First to convert hard-rock mine to gas storage.
  • Constructed crude oil caverns in salt for the first superport in the U.S.
  • First to convert coal mine to natural gas storage.
  • Designed and supervised construction and filling of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve
  • First to convert a large brine field gallery to natural gas storage.
  • Selected sites for the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

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Unique cavern with five 30" storage wells, used for supertanker unloading

  • Drilled deepest brine disposal well in the world.
  • First to use "pump out" method for solution mining salt storage caverns.
  • First to use modified leaching technique for developing salt storage caverns.
  • Developed many firsts in big-hole drilling technology.
  • Designed and drilled deepest large-diameter well in the world.
  • Developed and modified rules and regulations regarding underground storage for several states in the U.S.
  • Designed and drilled numerous high-capacity brine disposal wells.
  • Pioneered a method for enlarging salt caverns while storing natural gas via solution mining under gas (SMUG) techniques.
  • Constructed first hard-rock LPG storage cavern.
  • Constructed most of the world's hard-rock LPG storage caverns.

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