El Paso Energy Partners L.P. announced that it has completed the expansion of its Petal natural gas salt dome storage facility and 60-mile takeaway pipeline located near Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

The Spindletop oilfield was discovered on a salt dome formation south of Beaumont on Jan. 10, 1901, marking the birth of the modern petroleum industry.

Williams announced today it has leased underground salt caverns located in LaFourche Parish, La., and will develop the caverns into a 10 billion cubic feet (Bcf) natural gas storage facility in ...

The Napoleonville Salt Dome is a huge underground column of salt, which stretches from about 700 feet, which would be the top of the column, to 30,000 feet deep and covers an oval shaped area of ...

The Black Bayou salt dome is ideally situated between rapidly growing U.S. Gulf Coast energy supply and demand centers and in the heart of the U.S.'s rapidly growing southwest Louisiana’s LNG ...

There’s been a tremendous amount of testing and investigation over the past year to find out how much of a threat is posed from problems with the salt dome caverns near Sulphur. any years ago caverns ...

Enterprise Products Partners LP, Houston, is buying Mont Belvieu, Tex., storage facilities from Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp. and Koch Industries Inc. HOUSTON, Oct. 29-- Enterprise Products ...

That’s the case with the latest raid on the oil reserve that is stored in Texas and Louisiana salt domes to provide a backstop for the nation’s economy in the event of a national emergency.

Triple Point Resources' website says the Fischells Salt Dome is approximately 2 kilometres deep, massive, "with potential to store more than 35 million cubic meters, or the equivalent of 180,000 ...