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RAG underground gas storages facilities
RAG operates its underground gas storages facilities in Salzburg and Upper Austria, which are pore storages.
Gas Storage Puchkirchen
Puchkirchen/ Haag underground gas storage facility
Gas was first found at the Puchkirchen site in 1956. The conversion of the former gas reservoir into a gas storage facility and its expansion was being carried out in several stages and started already in 1982 and was completed by 2009. In the summer 2009 the Puchkirchen site was connected with the Haag reservoir. Currently, the underground gas storage facility has a working gas volume of approx. 1.1 billion cubic metres with injection and withdrawal rate of approx. 520,000 cubic metres of natural gas per hour.
Haidach 5 underground gas storage facility
The conversion of the former natural gas reservoir into an underground gas storage facility started in 2005/2006. The storage has a working gas volume of approx. 14 million cubic metres of natural gas and injection and withdrawal rate of a 20,000 cubic metres per hour.
New storage projects
Due to the growing demand for storage services, RAG, as concession holder, is proofing the suitability of existing gas reservoirs for their conversion into underground gas storage facility. Further inforamtion about potential development and extension of storage facilities can be found under Storage Development.