Boart Longyear was awarded a contract for drilling services at the Magnum NGLs (natural gas liquids) Storage Project at central Utah's Western Energy Hub. Magnum is building the first underground salt cavern NGLs storage facility in the Rocky Mountain region at the site. Development will include the construction of solution-mined storage caverns in a salt dome approximately 3,000 feet below the natural surface. Initially, the facility will feature two caverns each capable of storing between 1 and 2 million barrels of NGLs such as propane and butane. Boart Longyear will use the largest drill rig in its fleet — the LM700 model — to drill two injection wells using the dual-tube flooded reverse-circulation technique. Magnum NGLs will be the first underground salt cavern NGLs storage facility in the Rocky Mountain Region.
