The document summarizes plans for the Brookside Storage Facility, a natural gas storage facility to be located in the Bethel Salt Dome in Anderson County, Texas. The facility will have an initial working capacity of 20 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage, and plans to later expand to 40 billion cubic feet. It will connect to four major pipelines and help meet increasing demand for natural gas, especially during periods of high usage in winter. Gas will be injected and withdrawn from salt caverns created through solution mining, which involves pumping fresh water into wells to dissolve salt and form caverns. Engineering studies are underway to determine the number and placement of wells needed.

1. GWI - 2009
Malta
Brookside Storage LLC
At the Bethel Salt Dome
Anderson County, Texas
Presented by: Travis Russell
Russell Drilling Co., Inc.

2. The Bethel Salt Dome is located 18 miles
Northeast of Palestine, Texas
The facility will have a natural gas working
capacity of 20 BCF with the ability to increase
to 40 BCF.
It is ideally located with connections to
several large pipelines serving the Barnett
Shale and East Texas Production areas, as
well as power plants, residential and
industrial customers in the East Texas market.

3. Increasingly, there has developed a need for
high deliverability in the marketplace. The
residential and commercial demand can
increase by a factor of 10 from summer to
winter. Meanwhile, the increasing use of
natural gas for power generation creates
substantial demand during peak load periods
in the summer.

4. • Having weather sensitive customers that require
substantial amount of gas during periods of
extreme weather, the Brookside facility in the
Bethel Salt Dome will allow them to respond to
those needs.
• The facility will inject gas during low customer
needs, and withdraw during periods of high
demand.
• In this way, salt dome storage provides a
valuable balancing service to shift natural gas
availability from times of excess to times of
shortage.

5. The Brookside Facility will provide
interconnection with four major
pipelines.
1. Enterprises
2. Atmos
3. Energy Transfer
4. Anadarko

6. Brookside expects its first 10.0 BCF working phase to be
operational in spring 2011. The second 10.0 BCF working
phase is expected to be operational years later.

7. The Bethel Salt Dome is ideally suited for
natural gas storage. The salt deposit is
contiguous and impermeable to leakage.
The caverns will be created using a solution
mining process. *This is accomplished by
drilling a well into the salt deposit and then
pumping a stream of water down the well to
dissolve away enough salt to create a cavern.

8. Each cavern will be approximately 320’ in diameter and 1560 ‘ tall. The top
of each cavern will be located 3200 ‘ below the surface. This provides for a
total volume of approximately 14.5 billion cubic feet of in each cavern. This
will provide about 10 billion cubic feet of working natural gas storage in
each cavern.

9. The Salt dome wells themselves will be constructed by setting
750’ of 48” casing. 950’ of 42”casing , and 3200’ of 36” casing.
The casing will then be drilled out to 6,000 feet and solution
mining commencing.

21. There is a need for about 4300 GPM of fresh
water needed to proceed the solution mining.
This will continue for about two years, with
the casing being moved up or down as
needed to wash out the cavern. 20” casing
will be installed near the bottom of the salt
for leaching operations. This pipe will be
moved upward in the hole as the cavern is
made larger.

22. • One 16” straight wall well was drilled nearby
to about 500’ and a 16”x10” well drilled
adjacent to a depth of 770’. The shallow well
produced about 500 GPM and the deeper
well produced 1000 GPM.

23. Electric Log

27. Studies are now being conducted by three different hydrologist
firms to determine placement and the number of additional wells to
be drilled.

28. Facilities are being constructed on site to
perform the solution mining process. These
consist of water supply and disposal
wells, pumps, control valves, retention
ponds, and piping to pump fresh water into
the salt and subsequently prepare the brine
for disposal.