The historic Spindletop oil site in Texas offers a model for storing more natural gas underground amid forecasts of surging ...

The salt dome deposit at Weeks Island starts at about 140 feet underground and extends to about 20,000 feet deep. Morton's deepest mine shafts have reached 1,400 to 1,600 feet underground, ...

It took several hours for the sinkhole to form on the northwestern portion of the Hull salt dome. It measured about 100 meters (328 feet) from east to west and 115 meters (49 feet) from north to ...

This diorama of a salt dome shows its size. Each of those layers is a separate mineral deposit. ... Instead of mountain-sized deposits, salt layers in West Texas can be several hundred feet thick.

The $280 million project includes two new salt dome natural gas storage caverns. ... The underground facility could hold more than 14-billion cubic feet of gas, but primarily helium.

The sinkhole in Daisetta first formed in 2008, when an initial 20-foot hole in the ground opened up into a crater that is about 900 feet wide and 260 feet deep. At the time, it swallowed up oil ...

On January 10, 1901, after numerous attempts at digging into the salt dome, oil struck. The Spindletop gusher raged for nine days, gushing 100,000 barrels of oil per day.

Concord Township is getting a new salt dome to replace one that collapsed last month. The township’s trustees approved a $51,582.40 purchase order with Elemental Solutions for a new dome on Jan. 3.

Concord Township’s salt dome recently collapsed during the lake effect snow event that impacted Northeast Ohio after Thanksgiving. Township Service Director Tim Brown said that the collapse ...

Currently, Parma’s main salt dome -- located at the Chevrolet Boulevard service garage -- holds upward of 5,500 tons. A smaller, secondary 500-ton structure sits at Nike Site Park.

In Wayne County, the Department of Public Services has a new salt dome available for road crews in Plymouth Township. CBS Detroit The dome was built during the summer.

LAKE COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - The salt dome in Concord Township collapsed Tuesday due to all the heavy snow. That area of Lake County received more than 30 inches of snow.