1.

      Of the four major types of underground storage facilities, the overwhelming majority of
storage capacity lies in what type of facilities?
a.      Depleted Reservoirs
b.      Aquifers
c.      Salt Caverns
d.      Hard Rock Caverns
2.      Which of the following is not a critical requirement of a successful underground storage
facility?
a.      Demand Market
b.      Property Rights
c.      Base Gas
d.     Remote Monitoring Equipment
3.      What is the term for dissolving salt with water to create a void space for liquid storage?
a.      Displacement
b.      Oversupply
c.      Solution Mining
d.      Retainage
4.      In the U.S. gas storage market, the traditional “summer injection for winter withdrawal”
usage cycle is driven mainly by what gas use?
a.      Futures Trading
b.     Residential Heating
c.      Industrial Load
d.      Fractionation
5.      What is the term for the practice of storage operators using unsubscribed or unused
capacity in their storage facilities for short term commercial contracts in addition to their
traditional storage customer contracts?
a.      Tariffs
b.     Parking & Lending
c.      Base Gas
d.      Peak Day Deliverability
6.      The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is what type of storage facility?
a.      Depleted Reservoir
b.      Aquifer
c.      Salt Cavern
d.      Hard Rock Cavern
7.      What is the term for the volume of gas owned by the customer and cycled in and out of a
storage facility each storage season?
a.      Native Gas
b.      Base Gas
c.      Working Gas
d.      Production Gas
8.      Which of the following is not a fluid typically housed in underground storage fields?
a.      Natural Gas
b.      Compressed Air
c.      Crude Oil
d.     Sewage
9.      What is the term for the depression or collapse of stratigraphic layers potentially caused by
mined or salt cavern development?
a.      Solubility
b.     Subsidence
c.      Injection
d.      Healing
10.   What is the approximate total capacity of U.S. natural gas storage facilities?
a.      40 Bcf
b.      400 Bcf
c.      4 Tcf
d.      40 Tcf