So far, they have built 2.1 kilometers, or 1.3 miles, of tunnels at a depth of about 120 meters, or 400 feet, below the Banyan Basin off Jurong Island, a mostly artificial land-reclamation zone that is home to much of the petrochemical industry of Singapore. They are starting on the first of five caverns planned for the first phase of the project, which is scheduled for completion in 2014. Full story
Singapore Looks to Store Oil in Caverns Under the Sea
The New York Times, 22 Feb 2011
SINGAPORE — Beneath the seabed west of Singapore, hundreds of laborers are working around the clock to carve out a network of tunnels and caverns that will eventually provide an enormous, secure storage space for oil.
So far, they have built 2.1 kilometers, or 1.3 miles, of tunnels at a depth of about 120 meters, or 400 feet, below the Banyan Basin off Jurong Island, a mostly artificial land-reclamation zone that is home to much of the petrochemical industry of Singapore. They are starting on the first of five caverns planned for the first phase of the project, which is scheduled for completion in 2014. Full story
So far, they have built 2.1 kilometers, or 1.3 miles, of tunnels at a depth of about 120 meters, or 400 feet, below the Banyan Basin off Jurong Island, a mostly artificial land-reclamation zone that is home to much of the petrochemical industry of Singapore. They are starting on the first of five caverns planned for the first phase of the project, which is scheduled for completion in 2014. Full story
