EVALUATION OF SALT STRUCTURES FOR UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE IN THE TUZGÖLÜ AND THE ÇANKIRI BASINS, TÜRKİYE

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2023-1-25

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Natural gas is a fossil fuel that is present in every step of our daily life, in terms of commercial, domestic, and industrial areas. It has wide low and high demand periods which necessitates its storage during low periods to be used during the high periods. One of the widely used storage methods is underground natural gas storage (UGS) facilities that have been used since 1915. They are economically important in long-term usage in the marketing area. Therefore, finding new suitable underground storage locations in Türkiye is getting strategically important. Apart from depleted oil or gas fields, salt domes and other salt bodies are widely used for this purpose. In this context, this study aims at mapping and evaluating the salt bodies in various parts of Türkiye using potential field data and seismic data sets and to design proper cavern patterns suitable for efficient underground storage facilities. For this purpose, two candidate sites are selected in Tuzgölü and Çankırı basins, which contain thick salt deposits and bodies suitable for constructing underground salt caverns for gas storage. The location of the salt bodies was determined by potential field data then they are mapped out using 2D seismic data sets. The 2D seismic interpretations are modeled in the Leapfrog Geo software for generating 3D static (solid) volumes. Then, the underground salt cavern is designed based on the analytical solution method that takes the shape of the salt body and geomechanical properties into consideration.

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Underground Natural Gas Storage, Salt Domes, Potential Field Data, Seismic Reflection Data, Salt Cavern

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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A. Güngör, “EVALUATION OF SALT STRUCTURES FOR UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE IN THE TUZGÖLÜ AND THE ÇANKIRI BASINS, TÜRKİYE,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2023.