New classifications of natural gas storage regions will begin November 19

Energy Information Administration ^ | NOVEMBER 16, 2015 | Energy Information Administration

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he previous West region was split into two regions, the Pacific and Mountain regions. Although both the new Pacific and Mountain regions are dominated by storage in depleted fields, the Pacific region facilities tend to have much higher deliverability--meaning gas is able to be withdrawn at higher rates. Average deliverability of fields in the Pacific is close to 0.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), which is nearly three times higher than that of the Mountain region, even though average working gas capacity is roughly the same in the two regions. Many facilities in the Pacific region use storage in an active way to respond to price conditions and customer demand, similar to how salt facilities might operate. With the exception of New Mexico, which is now in the Mountain region, the Producing region has remained relatively unchanged, but it was renamed the South Central region. The South Central region is home to most of the U.S. salt dome storage facilities, which are able to cycle gas much more rapidly than either depleted fields or aquifer storage. Because the nature and operation of salt facilities are distinct from depleted reservoir facilities, the South Central region can be further separated into salt and nonsalt, as was the previous Producing region. EIA began publishing separate salt and nonsalt data in 2012, and backcast the series to the end of 2006.

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Good job gobmint in publishing the map....I guess a few of those poor Syrian refugees have a copy