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Abstract: Underground Gas Storage in New York State: a Historical Perspective

G. M. Friedman, G. Sarwar, J. P. Bass, B. Guo

New York State has a long history of underground gas storage activity that began with conversion of the Zoar gas field into a storage reservoir in 1916, the first in the United States. By 1961 another fourteen storage fields were developed and seven more were added between 1970 and 1991. All twenty- two operating storage reservoirs of New York were converted from depleted gas fields and are of low-deliverability, base-load type. Nineteen of these are in sandstone reservoirs of the Lower Silurian Medina Group and the Lower Devonian Oriskany Formation and three in limestone reservoirs of the Middle Devonian Onondaga and Tully formations. All the storage reservoirs are located in the gas producing areas of southwestern New York and are linked to the major interstate transmis ion lines.

Recent developments in underground gas storage in New York involve mainly carbonate-reef and bedded salt-cavern storage projects. The Thomas Corners field of Steuben County, presently under development, will be the second Onondaga pinnacle-reef storage field in New York. Two high-deliverability salt cavern storage facilities, one in Steuben County and the other in Cayuga County, are expected to begin operation by the 1996-1997 heating season.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90954©1995 AAPG Eastern Section, Schenectady, New York