Gas Storage in the Midwest - 1966 Review

1966 Eastern Regional Meeting, Nov. 10–11, 1966, Columbus, Ohio I -Introduction In the spring or 1964 I reported on the status or "GAS STORAGE IN THE MIDWEST" at an A.P.I. meeting in Evansville, Indiana. Your program chairman asked me to review this paper for you and to bring it up to date. My talk today will compare storage volumes, operations, and fields in 1966 vs 1962 in the rive state area or Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, and Missouri; it will discuss the economics of gas storage; it will discuss differences between depleted gas field storage and aquifer type storage. II - STATUS OF STORAGE IN THE MIDWEST In my last talk on this subject, the data gathered showed that the five (5) state area covered had experienced a steady growth in the volume or gas in storage and the number of storage fields during the rive (5) year period 1958–1962. Review or this matter shows that this upward trend is still present. Slide 1, shows the gas storage volumes for the various states - 1958–1965. These figures were obtained from yearly reports prepared by the Committee on UNDERGROUND STORAGE or the AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION. The state with the most gas in storage is Illinois with 175.3 billion cubic feet in storage. This incidentally is something less than one half or the total storage volume or Ohio, which had 428 billion in storage in 1965. It is interesting to note that Kentucky, which had a leveling off or stored gas in 1961–63, has again started increasing its storage gas volume. Talking with various operators in this area reveals that their increase in storage volume is connected with the conversion or recently round gas fields in Kentucky to storage fields. P. 1^