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Career Opportunities...
We have
several professional openings in our Houston offices.
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Organizational Changes...
PBESS names
two Vice Presidents and a new Mgr of Operations.
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Active
Projects...
Some of
our current projects include:
- Mined LPG storage cavern, West Virginia.
- Feasibility studies for strategic natural gas
storage, India.
- Storage well drilling, Texas and Mississippi.
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Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
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| Compressed air energy storage (CAES) for electrical power generation
during peak-use periods is a concept hat has been considered by a number of power
utilities in the U.S. and around the world. Storing compressed air in geologic
structures such as aquifers and solution-mined caverns is often a feasible and
cost-effective concept. The CAES theory is based on over 60 years of natural gas storage
experience in underground reservoirs. Of the types of underground media which can
accommodate compressed air, solution-mined caverns are the prefered choice. Salt
domes along the Gulf Coast and bedded salt deposits elsewhere are suitable for CAES
development. Hard-rock caverns are also suitable in those areas where salt deposits
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CAES Cavern Flow Diagram
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| PB Energy Storage Services constructed the U.S.'s first CAES facility for peak-shaving in Alabama's McIntosh salt
dome, where a 20-million cubic foot cavern supports a 26-hour, 110 MW power generation
plant.
KBB constructed the world's first CAES salt dome
storage cavern project at Huntorf, Germany, where two 10-million cubic foot caverns
support a 2-hour, 290 MW power plant.
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Cavern wellhead for the first CAES plant in the U.S.
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