Easton Energy CEO Joel McComas tells Tank Storage Magazine about salt caverns and oil storage in Texas HYDROCARBON storage comes in all kinds of shapes and sizes – huge tanks, small tanks, in barrels, on ships, even in railway wagons and pipelines in recent months – but one of the biggest by capacity is in underground salt caverns. Underground salt caverns are created through a process called solution mining, where a well is drilled in a salt deposit and water pumped into the salt deposit to dissolve the salt and create brine, which is used in a variety of industrial […]
