The new requirements include a minimum 300-foot separation between the walls of new brine caverns and a salt dome’s outer edge. The current rules for brine caverns have no minimum separation.

After the Texas Brine collapse, the state required salt-dome operators to show how close the 256 caverns in Louisiana are to the edge of the salt formations that, in essence, house them.

The shape of a salt dome is important because it dictates where caverns, which are created by pumping water underground to dissolve the salt and create a void, can safely be located.

The new requirements include a minimum 300-foot separation between the walls of new brine caverns and a salt dome’s outer edge. The current rules for brine caverns have no minimum separation.

The State Department of Natural Resources proposes new regulations to deal with salt dome caverns to prevent collapses like the one in Assumption Parish causing the giant sinkhole. Most people in ...

As the number of storage caverns in its salt dome grew, so did the town`s problems. Explosions and gas leaks plagued the town through in the early 1980s, but the last straw came in July, ...

Scientists have examined how salt domes behave and conclude that the U.S. Department of Energy is justified in extending the life of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

BAYOU CORNE, LA (WAFB) - Assumption Parish officials said the Department of Natural Resources has confirmed Texas Brine Cavern No. 3 at the abandoned salt dome has failed. They said the company's ...

It became operational slightly later, in 1988, and has 21 storage caverns with an authorized storage capacity of 220.4 million barrels of oil. Up until 1994, there was a third site in Louisiana.

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He said it takes about two years to leach a cavern, so the current project will be finished in 2010, followed by the second cavern in 2012. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...

L AKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) -The emergency declared by the state more than a year ago about the Sulphur salt dome is still in effect. Will caverns 6 and 7 continue to pose a threat?