The Alton gas storage project is a proposed underground salt cavern storage facility located near Alton, Nova Scotia. The Alton storage site is ideally situated, with exceptional geological properties, access to existing natural gas supplies and pipeline infrastructure, and in close proximity to seasonal energy markets.
With the capability of eventually consisting of several caverns brined from a large, structurally stable salt formation, Alton’s initial focus will be on storing four to six billion cubic feet of natural gas and providing service to customers spanning from Atlantic Canada through to the northeastern United States.
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Underground salt Storage caverns are formed by dissolving and extracting salt from a large underground salt formation deposit, leaving an empty space in the formation.
Essentially impermeable, salt caverns are ideal for storing high pressure products ranging from natural gas to natural gas liquids, and even compressed air.
Alton has received all environmental approvals required to proceed with the development of the salt cavern storage facilities and is pursuing all remaining municipal, provincial, and federal permits required for development, including the final environmental assessment for a short-haul gas pipeline to connect the storage facility with an existing, nearby major natural gas transmission system.
By creating long-term value through early development recognition, Alton Storage is proposing other high-impact energy projects, including power generation, wind farming, alternate product storage, and service to a proposed long-distance pipeline, which may eventually result in the build-out of the Alton underground storage site to up to 40 billion cubic feet of capacity.
With the potential of increased natural gas supplies from proposed LNG receiving terminals and continued offshore production, the Alton partners have proposed the Atlantic Connector Gas Pipeline, a 1.2 billion cubic feet per day, high-pressure natural gas transmission system that, when integrated with the Alton storage facility, would provide for the efficient transportation of natural gas to markets in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.
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