In recent years, in foreign developed countries there remains a steady trend toward the priority use of UGS in rock salt deposits to cover peak loads in gas consumption. Kalmaz and Garadagh underground gas storages constructed on the basis of old hydrocarbon fields are currently operated as part of the Gas Supply System in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Along with efforts to increase the storage capacity of the existing UGS, SOCAR works on the creation of underground gas storage on the basis of salt deposits in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic. The article mentions that the utilization of thin rock salt deposits for the creation of underground storage is more efficient when reservoirs are constructed as extended tunnel excavation with cross-sections, limited to the reservoir capacity. Technological schemes of tunnel reservoirs construction can be classified according to: the number of wells per reservoir; the type and layout of the reservoir wells; the position of the central column in the horizontal wellbore under the reservoir construction; method for solvent supply. Using the layouts of horizontal tunnel storage facilities proposed in the paper we can create UGS in Tumbul salt deposits to control the non-uniformity of gas supply and cover seasonal peak gas consumption in Nakhichevan AR
Received 12.08.2021
Revised 07.12.2021
Accepted 01.03.2022
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