Previous Conferences
Recent SMRI conference locations and activities:
Spring Conferences Fall Conferences
2025 Wilhelmshaven, Germany 27-29 April 2025 Technical Class: "Solution Mining" Field Trips: NWKG Oil Storage Facility & Wilhelmshaven Boat Cruise, and EWE Gas Storage Facility Huntorf & Uniper CAES Plant Neuenhuntorf, and Oil and Gas Storage Facility Storag Etzel, Friedeburg & NWO Oil Tank Farm, Wilhelmshaven Abstracts
2024 Krakow, Poland 21-23 April 2024 Technical Class: "Hydrogen Cavern Storage Considerations." Field Trips: Wieliczka Salt Mine and Wawel Castle Tour, and Bochnia Salt Mine tour, and Wieliczka Salt Mine Standard Tour Abstracts 2024 Edmonton, AB, Canada 21-23 September 2024 Technical Class: "Solution Mining" Field Trips: Stream-Flo Group Facilities and Keyera Fort Saskatchewan Natural Gas Liquids Processing Plant, and C-Fer Technologies Facilities and ATCO's Fort Saskatchewan Salt Storage Operations Abstracts
2023 Spring Detroit, MI, US 23-26 April 2023 Technical Class: "Technical Aspects and Considerations for Cavern Abandonment." Field Trips: Oil Museum of Canada in Oil Springs, Canada, and a tour of the Cargill Salt Plant and Plains All American Pipeline facilities Abstracts 2023 Fall San Antonio, TX, US 1-3 Oct 2023 Technical Class: "Hydrogen Cavern Storage Considerations" Field Trips: State of Texas Advanced Resource Recovery/ BEG Core Workshop, and The Cave Without a Name/ Bandera Historical Rides Abstracts
2022 Spring Rapid City, SD, US 3-6 May 2022 Technical Class: "Development of a Cavern Storage Project, Cavern Basics." Field Trips: Black Hills Geology and Hydrology, Mammoth Site and Guided Tour, Wind Cave National Park, and Custer State Park, and Private Badlands National Park Abstracts 2022 Fall Chester, UK 25-28 Sept 2022 Technical Class: "Technical Aspects and Considerations for Cavern Abandonment." Field Trips: Storengy Stublach facility gas caverns site and the INOVYN site brine field, Lion Salt Works museum Abstracts
2021 Spring Virtual 19-22 April 2021 Abstracts 2021 Fall Galveston, TX, US 19-22 Sept 2021 Technical Class : "Development of a Cavern Storage Project, Cavern Basics." Field trips : Galveston Museums Abstracts
-- 2020 Fall Virtual 21-24 Sept 2020 Abstracts
2019 Spring New Orleans, Louisiana, US 7-10 April 2019 Technical Class : "Mechanical Integrity Testing (MIT) and Techniques in Gas and Liquids Storage Caverns." Field trips : Bayou Choctaw, LOOP (Louisiana Offshore Oil Port), Weeks Island Mine, Morton Salt (K+S), Avery Island Mine, Cargill Salt Abstracts 2019 Fall Berlin, Germany 22-25 Sept 2019 Technical Class : "Mechanical Integrity Testing (MIT) and Techniques in Gas and Liquids Storage Caverns." Field trips : Falkenhagen wind energy hydrogen storage facility of Uniper Energy Storage, Freiberg silver mine, and terra mineralia museum Abstracts
2018 Spring Salt Lake City, Utah, US 17-18 June 2018 Technical Class : "Engineering Calculations in Solution Mining." No field trips were held due to the 10th World Salt Symposium in Park City Abstracts 2018 Fall Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK 23-26 Sept 2018 Technical Class : "Engineering Calculations in Solution Mining." Field trips : Geology of Northern Ireland and Irish Salt Mining and Exploration, Ltd. facilities Abstracts
2017 Spring Albuquerque, NM, US 23-27 April 2017 Technical class : "Well Integrity Management for Salt Caverns." Field trips : Northern NM (Boca Negra, Bandelier, Los Alamos Museum) and Southeastern NM (WIPP surface, Intrepid Potash west mine, NM OCD) Abstracts
Spring 2017 Abstracts
Intelligent Troubleshooting to Locate the Position of an oil escape in salt cavern system in Germany Numerical prediction of tensile casing failure by salt creep for evaluating the integrity of cemented casings of salt caverns Static and Dynamic Effects of a Cavern Pressure Change on an Adjacent Cavern Microfracture Mapping and Geochemical Analysis, Relative to Underground Natural Gas Liquids Storage Facilities, Central Kansas Purpose, Challenges and Successes Related to Non-Brine Displacement Natural Gas Liquid Storage Caverns in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada Geomechanical Stability of Solution Mined Caverns Near Salt Dome Edges, Including Influence of External Reservoir Depletion Assessment of Past, Present and Future Stability Conditions in the Kłodawa Salt Dome Based on 3D Numerical Modeling A Complete Overhaul of Technical and Operational Processes for Rigless Wireline Services at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Results in Improved and Safer Well-Site Operations More flexibility for the gas storage caverns in Staßfurt: Re-analysis and prognosis of the load-bearing behavior by numerical simulations Pressure Trend Analyses for Geophysical and Integrity Investigations Analysis of a Comprehensive Suite of Microgravity Measurements Conducted over the South Y Brine Operation Site Implementation of technical requirements for improving well integrity of underground storage facilities in Europe Potential Influence of Granular Salt on Cavern Stability The Impact of Anomalous Salt and Boundary Shear Zones on Salt Cavern Geometry, Cavern Operations, and Cavern Integrity Thermodynamic studies of hydrogen storage in salt caverns Flow‐Induced Buckling of Brine Injection Strings in Solution‐Mined Storage Caverns Interpreting and Understanding Signatures of Measurements from Monitoring System at I&W Brine Cavern, Carlsbad, New Mexico An Asset Integrity Management System for Underground Natural Gas Storage in Solution-Mined Salt Caverns Rock-mechanical investigations regarding the proof of long-term safety of abandoned salt production cavities using hazardous waste as backfill material
2017 Fall Münster, Germany 24-27 Sept 2017 Technical class : "Well Integrity Management for Salt Caverns." Field trips : Borth salt mine of ESCO and Xanten Innogy facility, Hengelo salt facility, Akzo Nobel Netherlands, and Epe/ Uniper and SGW facilities Abstracts
2016 Spring Galveston, TX, US 24-27 April 2016 Technical class : "Salt Rock Mechanics." Field trips : Enterprise Products Mt. Belvieu, and Spectra Energy Moss Bluff, VIP tour of NASA Houston Abstracts 2016 Fall Salzburg, Austria 25-28 Sept 2016 Technical class : "Salt Rock Mechanics." Field trips : Hallstatt Salt Mine and to the salt mine Berchtesgaden Abstracts
2015 Spring Rochester, NY, US 26-29 April 2015 Technical class : "Salt Geology." Field trips : American Rock Salt Hampton Corners mine and Cargill Cayuga mine Abstracts 2015 Fall Santander, Spain 27-30 Sept 2015 Technical class : "Salt Geology." Field trips : Solvay's Torre la Vega plant and to Poza de la Sal Abstracts
2014 Spring San Antonio, TX, US 4-7 May 2014 Technical class : "Salt-cavern-induced Subsidence & Sinkholes." Field trip : Southwest Research Institute Abstracts 2014 Fall Groningen, The Netherlands 28 Sept to 1 Oct 2014 Technical class : "Salt-cavern-induced Subsidence & Sinkholes." Field trips : Gasunie EnergyStock Zuidwending and AKZO Nobel's Heiligerlee, Frisia Zout Harlingen Abstracts
2013 Spring Lafayette, LA US 21 to 24 April 2013 Technical class : "Salt Well Logging." Field trips : Surface features at Jefferson Island and Avery Island, and aerial tour of 4 ‘Island’ saltdomes and Napoleonville sinkhole Abstracts 2013 Fall Avignon, France conference 29 Sept to 2 Oct 2013 Technical class : "Salt Well Logging." Field trips : Kem One Vauvert brine facility and Geosel Manosque gas storage Abstracts
2012 Spring Regina, SK, Canada 22 -25 April 2012 Technical Class : “Solution Mining in Presence of Non-Halite Salts." Field trips : Mosaic Potash, TransGas, and Saskatchewan Province MER Core Lab Abstracts 2012 Fall Bremen, Germany 30 Sept - 3 Oct 2012 Technical class : "Fundamentals of Salt Cavern Development." Field trips : IVG Etzel, NWKG, and Solvay Abstracts
2011 Spring- Galveston TX, USA 18-20 April 2011 Technical Class : "Typical Drilling, Completion and Workover for Salt Caverns – Special Cases" Abstracts 2011 Fall- York, UK 2-4 Oct 2011 Technical Class : "Brine Use and Disposal- Methods and Case Histories" Abstracts
2010 Spring – Grand Junction CO, US 25-28 April 2010 Technical Class : "Surface Subsidence and Sinkholes" Abstracts
Spring 2010 Abstracts
12-Year Pressure Monitoring in an Idle Salt Cavern - The 1997-1998 Etrez Abandonment Test Revisited 25 years of lifetime history for seven Energinet.dk gas caverns in the Ll. Torup Zechstein salt dome in Jutland, Denmark A Case History of Successful Tubular Cuts Using a Wireline Conveyed Downhole Electric Cutting Tool A Cavern Abandonment Program in a CSME Cavern at Gellenoncourt (Lorraine, France) A Three-Dimensional Geometric Model of the Bayou Choctaw Salt Dome, Southern Louisiana, Using 3-D Seismic Data Anatomy of Hydrocarbon-Bearing Zones, Hydrocarbon Provenance and their Contribution to Brittle Fracturing of Rock Salt in the Klodawa Salt Structure (Poland) Case Study of the Hiltpold #2 Gas Storage Cavern Temperature Feature Design Decisions leading to the Long term Optimization of Saturated Brine Supply Experimental Deformation of Salt in Cyclic Loading Etzel Cavern Storage – Rock-Mechanical and Solution Mining Aspects Regarding Cavern Field Expansion Geophysical Imaging of Saltwater Bodies in Lorraine (France) Historical Review of Early Salt Manufacturing from Natural Salines in New York State, Implications for Present-Day Challenges Inferring the Geologic Significance and Potential Impact of Salt Fabric and Anomalous Salt on the Development and Long- Term Operation of Salt Storage Caverns on Gulf Coast Salt Domes Monitoring and Remediation of the I&W Brine Cavern in Carlsbad, New Mexico Natural Gas Cavern Inventory Assessment- A New Approach Overcoming Legacy Oilfield Challenges During Salt Cavern Construction; A Case Study Practical Experience with the Gas Lift Method During the Gas first Fill in the Etzel Cavern Field and Further Possible Applications Presentation of Salt Structures and Considerations about their Genesis as a Basis for the Evaluation of their Economical Use Pneumatic Frac Tests in Cavern wells for determining the gas compressive capacity as a basic for fixing the maximum storage Pressure Revision and Optimization of a Solution Mining Plan in Response to Changes in Project Costs, Schedule, Economics and Corporate Goals Rock Mechanical Design of Gas Storage Caverns for Seasonal Storage and Cyclic Operations Salt Spines, Boundary Shear Zones and Anomalous Salts Their characteristics, Detection and Influence on Salt Dome Storage Caverns Upgrade of Casing Wellheads and Implementations
2010 Fall- Leipzig, Germany 3-6 Oct 2010 Technical Class : "Fundamentals of Long-Term Abandonment of Salt Caverns" Abstracts
2009 Spring – Krakow, Poland 26-28 April 2009 Technical Class : "Surface Subsidence and Sinkholes" Abstracts 2009 Fall – World Salt Symposium, Beijing, China (no Fall SMRI conference) -Additional Information featured in the SMRI Library
2008 Spring- Porto, Portugal 27-30 April 2008 Technical Class : "Solution Mining and Hydrocarbon Storage Toolbox" Abstracts 2008 Fall – Austin TX, USA 12-14 Oct 2008 Technical Class : "Solution Mining and Hydrocarbon Storage Toolbox." Abstracts
2007 Spring- Basel, Switzerland 27-30 April 2007 Technical Class : "Practical Aspects of Solution Mining" Abstracts 2007 Fall- Halifax, Canada 7-10 Oct 2007 Technical Class : "Gas Storage MIT" Abstracts
2006 Spring- Brussels, Belgium 30 April-3 May 2006 Technical Class : "Salt Deposit Geology" Abstracts 2006 Fall- Rapid City, SD, USA 1-4 Oct 2006 Technical Class : "Rock Mechanics Lab" Abstracts
2005 Spring- Syracuse, NY, US 17-20 April 2005 Technical Class : "Rock Mechanics" Abstracts
Spring 2005 Abstracts
Sound Engineering, Planning & New Drilling Technology Drills a Salt Cavern Well in Record Time Monitoring for Induced Seismicity in the Wyoming Brine Field: Instrumentation, Procedures, and Observations Test and Analysis of New York Brine Disposal Formations Hengelo Brine Field: 'FE Analysis of Stability and Integrity of Inline Pillars' Late Ordovician and Silurian Strata of the Niagara Region: An Economic and Historical Geology Overview Movement and Control of Brine Rising from the Retsof Salt Mine Eleven Years after the Collapse The 1993 Tully Farms Road Landslide – An Update and Hydrogeology of a Natural, Brine-Filled Aquifer in the Onondaga Trough, near Syracuse, New York Gas Cavern Storage – a Critical Link in the LNG Import Chain Brine Injection in Upstate New York: Making Salt-Cavern Storage Technically Feasible in Areas Remote to Ocean Disposal New York LP Gas Storage, Inc. Hartford Mills Facility Cortland County, New York - An Overview of its History and Current Operations Solution Mining of Deep Potash Deposits in the Michigan Basin Cavity Shape Characterization of a Rubble-Fille Panel Discussion on Gas Cavern Operating Pressure Ranges d Solution Mined Cavity An Updated Three-Dimensional Geologic-Genetic Model of the Big Hill Salt Dome and Strategic Petroleum Reserve Site The Influence of Physical Conditions Inside a Cavern on Execution and Evaluation of Sonar Surveys Annulus Communications Eliminated Using Pressure-Activated Sealant Concerns About Sulfur Deposits in Caprock Overlying Salt Domes Salt Solution Mining - A Case History Engineering and Logistical Concerns in Conducting a Multi-Well Cavern Mechanical Integrity Test at LOOP Geology and Technology for Brine Injection into Deep Saline Aquifers - Findings of Longterm Planning, Operation, and Monitoring How to Determine the Integrity of Cavern Casings, a New Solution Found
2005 Fall- Nancy, France 2-5 Oct 2005 Technical Class : "Subsidence/ Sinkholes"Abstracts
2004 Spring- Wichita, KS, US 18-21 April 2004 Technical Class : Abstracts 2004 Fall- Berlin, Germany 3-6 Oct 2004 Technical Class : "Cavern completion" Abstracts
2003 Spring- Houston, TX, Us 27-30 April 2003 Technical Class : "Use of PCs/Computers in the Cavern Business" Abstracts 2003 Fall- Chester, UK 5-8 Oct 2003 Technical Class: Abstracts
2002 Spring- Banff, Canada 28 April-1 May 2002 Technical Class : Abstracts 2002 Fall- Bad Ischl, Austria 6-9 Oct 2002 Technical Class : "Solution Mining and Cavern Storage Rules" Abstracts
2001 Spring- Orlando, FL, US 22-24 April 2001 Technical Class : "Operation of Solution Mining and Hydrocarbon Storage Facilities" Abstracts 2001 Fall- Albuquerque, NM, US 7-10 Oct 2001 Technical Class : "Gas Storage in Salt Caverns" Abstracts
2000 Spring- Salt 2000 Conference 2000 Fall- San Antonio, TX, US 7-10 Oct 2000 Technical Class : "Subsidence and Sinkholes" Abstracts
Fall 2000 Abstracts
Subsidence Potential of the Hengelo Brine Field (Part 1)
Subsidence and sinkhole measurements using conventional surveying & electronic instruments The Ups and Downs of Post-Closure Subsidence Monitoring at the Tully Valley Brine Field, New York Case Theory: A Sinkhole at the EGP Fuels Company LPG Storage Terminal, Mont Belvieu, Texas Multiphase Flow and Cavern Abandonment in Salt Predictable and Manageable Subsidence Above Deep Salt Caverns CavBase-Visualization and Database for Cavern Construction, Solution Mining Process, Brine Production, and Product Storage THE MECHANISM OF SINKHOLE FORMATION ABOVE THE COLLAPSE OF A SIYIALL YIELD-PILLAR PANEL IN THE RETSOF SALT MINE UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESSES OF SALT DISSQLUTION AND SUBSIDENCE Magnetic device for experimental investigations Natural Dissolution of Salt in the United States NATURAL SOLUTION OF SALADO SALT SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO SUBSIDENCE, SINKHOLES, AND PIPING ASSOCIATED WITH GULF COAST SALT DOMES THE GEOLOGIC DATA BASE AS IT RELATES TO UNDERGROUND STORAGE PROJECTS Uncontrolled Leaching of a Salt Layer in an Oil Field in Algeria Relative Evaluation of Storage Cavern Volume Measurements GEOTECHNICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATED WITH DECOMMISSIONING THE STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE FACILITY AT WEEKS ISLAND, LOUISIANA: A CASE HISTORY Subsidence Potential of the Hengelo Brinefield (part 2) Review of Publications 1960-2000 on Subsidence and Sinkhole Formation over Solution-Mined Caverns Casing Sealing Study: Status Report on Solution Mining Research Institute Research Program (RFP-98-3) Evaporites, Casing Requirements, Wafer-floods, and Out-of-formation Waters: Potential for Sinkhole Developments ANOMALOUS SUBSIDENCE AT MONT BELVIEU, TEXAS A STATUS REPORT ON THE SOLUTION MINING RESEARCH INSTITUTE CAVERN SEALING AND ABANDONMENT PROGRAM Prediction of ground movement above salt caverns using influence functions Examination of Rock Salt Underground Cavern Testing for Leak-Tightness by Pressure Alteration The Laboratory Study of Salt Cavern Leaching Process - Experience of Modeling Subsidence and sinkholes above flooded potash mines in Northern Germany The Results of the Pressure Build-Up Test in the Brine Filled Cavern Etzel K102 Rock Mechanical Problems of Shallow Salt Mines in Cheshire, UK ESTIMATION OF RISK FACTORS RESULTED FROM THE EXPLOITATION OF SALT IN SOLUTION IN FIELD ll OF WELLS - OCNELE MARl- STABILISATION MEASURES Examples of the Development of Sinkholes above Flooding or Flooded Salt Mines in Central Germany and Ways of Remote Detection of Areas with a Potential Risk of Fall WINNFIELD MINE FLOODING AND COLLAPSE EVENT OF 1965 GEODYNAMIC REASEARCH OF THE MIROVO SALT DEPOSIT NEAR PROV ADIJA, NE BULGARIA An Introduction to Subsidence Over Salt and Potash Mining Facilities Subsidence Modeling and Use of Solution Mining Research Institute SALT _SUBSID Software Pre- and Post-Flooding Surface Subsidence Rates at the Retsof, Belle Isle, Jefferson Island Salt Mines NEW RESULTS ON CAVERN SEALING AND PERMEATION PROCESSES
1999 Spring- Las Vegas, NV, US 11-14 April 1999 "Brine Production and Storage Cavern Construction" Abstracts 1999 Fall- Washington, DC, US 3-6 Oct 1999 Technical Class: "Solution Mining Matched to Minerals and Geology" Abstracts
1998 Spring - New Orleans, LA, US "Mechanical Testing of Brine Production and Storage Caverns" Abstracts 1998 Fall - Rome, Italy Technical Class: "Guidelines for safety Assessment of Salt Caverns" Abstracts
1997 Spring - Krakow, Poland 11-14 May 1997 "Computer Modelling of Salt Cavern Leaching Process" 1997 Fall - El Paso, TX, US "Elements of Rock Mechanics Related to Salt" Abstracts
1996 Spring - Houston, TX, USA 14-16 April 1996 "Natural Gas in Salt Caverns" 1996 Fall - Cleveland, OH, USA 20-23 October 1996 "Solution Mining Well Operations" Abstracts
1995 Spring - New Orleans, LA, USA 30 April-3 May 1995 1995 Fall - San Antonio, TX, USA 22-25 October 1995 "Cavern Design" Abstracts
1994 Spring - Houston, TX, USA 25-27 April 1994 Abstracts
1994 Fall - Hannover, Germany 25 September - 1 October 1994 "Cavern Design" Abstracts
1993 Spring - Syracuse, NY, USA 25-27 April 1993 Abstracts
1993 Fall - Lafayette, IN, USA 24-28 October 1993 Abstracts
1992 Spring - Salt 7 Conference 1992 Fall - Houston, TX, USA 18-22 October 1992 Abstracts
1991 Spring - Atlanta, GA, USA 27-30 October 1991 Abstracts 1991 Fall - Las Vegas, NV, USA 27-30 October 1991 Abstracts
1990 Spring- Austin, TX, USA 21-24 April 1990 Abstracts 1990 Fall - Paris, France 14-19 October 1990 Abstracts
1989 Spring- New Orleans, LA, USA 1-3 May 1989 Abstracts 1989 Fall - San Antonio, TX, USA 22-25 October 1989 Abstracts
1988 Mobile, AB , USA 24-25 April 1988 Abstracts 1988 Fall - New Orleans, LA, USA 17-20 October 1988 Abstracts
1987 Tulsa, OK , USA 25-27 April 1987 Abstracts 1987 Fall - Denver, CO, USA 19-21 October 1987 Abstracts
1986 Baton Rouge, LA , USA 20-22 April 1986 Abstracts 1986 Fall - Amsterdam , Netherlands 19-21 October 1986 Abstracts
1985 Washington, D.C. , USA 28-30 April 1985 Abstracts 1985 Washington, D.C., USA 14-16 October 1985 Abstracts
1984 Atlanta, GA, USA 28-30 April 1984 Abstracts 1984 Kansas City, MO, USA 12-14 October 1984 Abstracts
Salt 6 Conference -More information available in SMRI Library 1983 Denver, CO, USA 16-19 October 1983 Abstracts
1982 Denver, CO, USA 18-20 April 1982 Abstracts 1982 Manchester, UK 16-19 October 1982 Abstracts
1981 Chicago, IL, USA 16-19 April 1981 Abstracts 1981 Chicago, IL, USA 16-19 April 1981 Abstracts
-- 1980 Chicago, IL, USA 16-19 April 1980 Abstracts
Salt 5 Conference, Hamburg, DE More information Available in SMRI Library 1979 Toronto, CA 16-19 October 1979 Abstracts
