Operational assistance
Geostock has acquired unique know-how and developed original methodologies designed to monitor the behaviour of underground storage facilities:
It comprises for storage in caverns:
- Geomechanical stability: by seismic monitoring,
- Water tightness control: by hydrogeological monitoring
- Monitoring of water quality
- Thermodynamic follow-up of leached salt caverns
- Water quality follow-up
- Tracking of corrosion and inspection of equipment
Organisational, technical and safety audits of the operation of underground storage facilities
For porous media underground storage, Geostock can provide assistance for:
- Exploration and production wells monitoring
- Reservoir behaviour monitoring
- Tightness control and tracking of corrosion and inspection of equipment
- Storage facilities upgrading and extension studies.
Geostock can offer expertise in both:
- assistance in the implementation of monitoring processes adapted to the operation of the site
- assistance with the execution of special on-site operations (in particular work on and inspection of underground-surface connections),
- administrative engineering for the applications to build and operate underground storage facilities and the associated equipment (pipelines and surface equipment)
- management of industrial risks and safety (HAZOP, AMDE, development of systems for safety management, risk studies, including the underground aspects, emergency plans and crisis management, etc.)
- creation and delivery of training in the operation of underground storage facilities (initial and continuous operator training, production of the training manuals),
- technical-economic studies of the creation and operation of underground storage facilities
In all these fields, Geostock has a comprehensive database containing the feedback from 45 years of experience in the operation of underground facilities.