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The Preesall Underground Gas Storage Facility Order 2015

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In the Borough of Wyre in the County of Lancashire and in the Irish Sea adjacent to the Borough of Wyre

A nationally significant infrastructure project as defined in sections 14 and 17 of the 2008 Act comprising—

  • Work No. 1A — an underground gas storage facility to store gas in, extract gas from and inject gas into, with—

    (a)

    a total storage capacity of up to 900 million standard cubic metres; and

    (b)

    a working capacity of up to 600 million standard cubic metres, but not less than 130 million standard cubic metres,

    in each case specified at the standard temperature and pressure, comprising up to 19 operational caverns formed by solution mining of the Preesall halite deposit; all to be constructed to any extent downwards below 220 metres below ground surface and to be confined within the Preesall halite deposit; and

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