Underground gas storage

Underground gas storage
  The use of sub-surface facilities for storing gas that has been transferred from its original location. The facilities are usually hollowed-out salt domes, geological reservoirs (depleted oil or gas fields) or water-bearing sands topped by an impermeable cap rock (aquifer).
  U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration's Energy Glossary

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