Power demand, gas production, and pipeline and power plant construction are soaring, but the storage space for natural gas is ...

Salt caverns give power plants the kind of fast, on‑demand gas deliveries that big AI campuses increasingly expect as ...

Nearly six years after the catastrophic failure of a salt mine caused the Bayou Corne sinkhole, a company is planning two new massive mines in the same underground deposit in Assumption Parish. The ...

Researchers in China have investigated the long-term stability of horizontally connected salt caverns used for compressed air energy storage. They found about 85% of the existing salt caverns in their ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources has granted the first of three state permits for the proposed expansion of an underground natural gas storage operation in the salt dome ...

California utility giant Sempra Energy is dusting off plans for natural gas storage in salt caverns in Cameron Parish as more liquefied natural gas export terminals are built in southwest Louisiana.

An energy study to determine whether salt caverns could be used in North Dakota to store gas and liquids is running millions of dollars over budget. The three-member North Dakota Industrial Commission ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Studies of the area where a sinkhole formed last summer in Assumption Parish indicate scientists suspected as early as 1991 that the Napoleonville Dome was not shaped as state ...