HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 2.Apr.2025) — Austin-based infrastructure developer NeuVentus, LLC received a final order from the Railroad Commission of Texas granting a subsidiary of NeuVentus authority to create and operate 12 salt caverns for storage of a variety of gases and liquids (including natural gas, hydrogen and natural gas liquids or NGLs) at its Texas Reliability Underground Hub (TRU Hub) salt cavern storage project located in Liberty County, Texas.
The final order provides for 8 gas caverns (including natural gas and hydrogen) under Texas Statewide Rule 97 and 4 liquids caverns (including NGLs) under Texas Statewide Rule 95. This equates to a potential fully-built total working capacity across all of TRU Hub’s 12 permitted caverns of up to approximately 96 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of gas, 100,000 metric tons of hydrogen, 128 million barrels of NGLs, or some combination thereof, NeuVentus announced on 2 Apr. 2025 in an official statement.
The initial phase of development will include 2 natural gas caverns, each of which is permitted for up to 14,000,000 barrels of cavern volume apiece, equating to 10 Bcf of working capacity each and 20 Bcf in total gas working capacity. Each of the 2 caverns in the initial phase has a permitted maximum daily injection rate of 2.5 Bcf/d. TRU Hub’s initial phase also includes a large-diameter natural gas pipeline header with excellent interconnectivity with up to 12 gas pipelines, including some of the largest interstate and Texas intrastate transmission arteries.
NeuVentus will initiate marketing efforts and engagement with potential customers for the TRU Hub in the near future. TRU Hub is a greenfield salt cavern storage facility located in the heart of the Moss Bluff salt dome in southern Liberty County, Texas. The TRU Hub facilities under development consist of the 12 permitted salt cavern wellbore locations, solution-mining equipment and interconnecting pipelines.
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