HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY: Aspects of energy related to gas storage -- Earth's energy resources -- Historical background on fossil fuels -- Exploration methods for natural gas -- PROPERTIES OF STORAGE RESERVOIRS, ROCKS, AND FLULDS: Natural gas reservoirs suitable for storage -- Properties of natural gas -- Hydrates of natural gas -- Other transport properties relevant to storage -- Joule Thomson coefficient for natural gas -- Properties of reservoir rocks: porosity and permeability -- THEORY OF FLOW THROUGH STORAGE RESERVOIRS: Fundamentals of flow through porous media -- DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERGROUND STORAGE FLELDS: Concepts in storage design -- Engineering procedures for design of storage fields -- Wellbores, well heads, gathering systems, distributing systems -- Two-phase flow -- Temperature distributions in storage wells -- OPERATION OF STORAGE FIELDS: Evaluation of storage reservoir performance -- Verification of inventory -- Methods for determining and identifying leaks -- MOVEMENT OF WATER IN CONTACT WITH NATURAL GAS: Aquifers in storage -- Flow equations and geometric models -- The principle of superposition -- Application of water movement to development of aquifer storage fields -- and THRESHOLD PRESSURE IN UNDERGROUND STORAGE: Caprocks and threshold displacemen -- Caprocks in gas storage -- Pressure gradients related to caprocks -- Hydraulics of the wellbore environment -- Concepts related to physics of threshold displacement -- Grading of caprocks by threshold displacement pressures -- Correlations for estimating threshold pressures -- HANDLING LIQUIDS IN NATURAL GAS PIPELINES: Flow regimes in two-phase flow -- Analysis of route selection -- Case studies in distribution systems -- Liquid removal devices -- NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF FLOWS AND PRESSURES IN UNDERGROUND STORAGE: Fundamental equations -- Specific description of the simulation problem -- Finite difference representations -- Computation of individual well flows -- SPECIAL TOPICS IN UNDERGROUND STORAGE: Isotopic identification of suspected leakage from storage reservoirs -- Solubility and diffusion in storage -- Corrosion in underground storage -- Underground storage in salt -- CASE HISTORIES IN UNDERGROUND STORAGE: Gas reservoir with high permeability-bistineau gas storage field, Bienville Parish, Louisiana -- Attempted gas migration Control-Leroy Storage, Uinta County, Wyoming.
