Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Singapore Looks to Store Oil in Caverns Under the Sea
The New York Times, 22 Feb 2011SINGAPORE — Beneath the seabed west of Singapore, hundreds of laborers are working around the clock to carve out a network of tunnels and caverns that will eventually provide an enormous, secure storage space for oil.So far, they have built 2.1 kilometers, or 1.3 miles, of tunnels at a depth of about 120 meters, or 400 feet, below the Banyan Basin off Jurong Island,