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With natural gas storage at low levels in most of 2014 and production relatively high, minimal new natural gas storage capacity was built, except for salt facilities in the Producing region. Capacity in the East region of the United States fell slightly, resulting in relatively unchanged national total capacity. EIA measures natural gas storage capacity in November of each year, which is typically when storage withdrawals begin to exceed storage injections. From November 2013 to November 2014, EIA found that each of EIA's two measures of storage capacity within the Lower 48 states was virtually unchanged, as increases in salt...

Lake Peigneur is in the heart of the Louisiana Bayou near New Iberia, which is a two hour drive from New Orleans. It was a freshwater lake that was up to 11 feet deep. However, that would all change on November 21, 1982. Diamond Crystal Salt Company operated a salt mine under the lake, while Texaco had a oil rig drilling down for oil. Most likely, it was a miscalculation that led up to this drastic change of Lake Peigneur. The drill hit the Diamond Crystal Salt Company's salt dome. The water starts to drain into the hole. The salt...

AVERY ISLAND, La. (AP) — On a salt dome that rises from the Cajun flatlands like an island from the sea, the plant which makes Tabasco sauce was safe from floods caused by Hurricane Rita. And it had enough stock on hand to ship out until the factory regained power. Many of its workers weren't as lucky. "We've got a lot of employees that live in Delcambre and Erath and Lydia and low-lying areas around Avery Island," Paul McIlhenny, chief executive of McIlhenny Co., said Wednesday. [snip] Power had been out since Friday night, when the storm was still offshore....