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Liquid hydrocarbons are stored in salt dome caverns containing brine after first stripping the brine of contaminating gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide by sparging a decontaminating gas such as nitrogen into the brine and removing the nitrogen and the contaminating gases from the salt dome cav

Liquid hydrocarbons are stored in salt dome caverns containing brine after first stripping the brine of contaminating gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide by sparging a decontaminating gas such as nitrogen into the brine and removing the nitrogen and the contaminating gases from the salt dome cavern.

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A process for decontaminating water in an underground cavern, said water containing at least one contaminating gas from the group consisting of oxygen and carbon dioxide, comprising bubbling a decontaminating gas into the water to displace some of the water from the cavern, reducing the pressure of

A process for decontaminating water in an underground cavern, said water containing at least one contaminating gas from the group consisting of oxygen and carbon dioxide, comprising bubbling a decontaminating gas into the water to displace some of the water from the cavern, reducing the pressure of the decontaminating gas filling the volume left above the water, allowing the contaminating gas to pass from the water into the decontaminating gas and passing the decontaminating gas and contaminating gas out of the underground cavern.