Planning and Design Essentials on Natural Gas Underground Storages

Constructing natural gas underground storages is the most reasonable and effective means to fundamentally solve the issues of seasonal peak shaving of urban gas. The paper discusses respectively the formations selection, planning/design and dynamic operation of underground storages. Meanwhile, the characteristics of various underground storages have been analyzed. The authors consider that the analytical results can be used as an important reference in studying planning and designing underground storages in China.