Abstract: Natural Gas-Storage Assessment for New York State

FRIEDMAN, GERALD M., JONATHAN P. BASS, GOLAM SARWAR, and BAIYING GUO

Potential underground natural gas-storage sites in New York State are assessed based on the identification and characterization of promising geologic formations. The two guiding research parameters were the existence of a market and suitable storage reservoirs. Fifteen existing depleted gas fields are identified in western New York that may be suitable as low-deliverability storage reservoirs. Potential high-deliverability sites will be in the bedded salt of the Salina Group (Silurian) of south-central New York, where leached salt caverns could provide a peak-load service capacity. Potential unconventional storage sites may be developed in the Cambrian-Ordovician (Sauk Sequence) rocks of southeastern New York.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90942©1997 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, Vienna, Austria