Solution Mining

Solution-mining operations need to balance a diverse range of technical factors to ensure successful production. RESPEC’s engineers and scientists understand these factors and assist clients with optimizing solution-mining operations, planning for cavern-field expansions, and complying with regulatory requirements. Based on decades of solution-mined cavern experience, we help with mine scheduling to maximize available resources while ensuring safe geotechnical conditions and manageable subsidence. With advanced analysis techniques, our solution-mining professionals perform root cause analyses  of operational incidents and identify mitigation approaches and asset retirement needs. When planning new wells or mining expansions, we work with clients to optimize drilling locations and assist with meeting regulatory and monitoring requirements along with due diligence activities. RESPEC’s multifaceted approach provides clients with an advanced skillset for ensuring efficient and successful solution mining.

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CAPABILITIES

  • Drilling Management and Procurement
  • Geologic Coring and Characterization
  • Rock Testing
  • Hydrologic Characterization
  • Solution-Mine Design and Scheduling
  • Geomechanical, Thermal, Thermodynamic, and Hydrological Analyses
  • Subsidence Analyses
  • Field Instrumentation and Testing
  • Disposal Well Design

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Cavern Experience

Engineering Problem Solving

Optimized In Situ Mining

One-Stop Convenience

RESPEC is fully equipped and staffed with field geologists, engineers and drilling-management experts, a rock-mechanics laboratory, core logging and storage, advanced modeling solutions, and monitoring instrumentation.

Cavern Experience

By using advanced geomechanical knowledge, RESPEC has evaluated more than 1,000 caverns during 4 decades of applied cavern experience in nearly every major cavern-storage region in the world.

Engineering Problem Solving

By building on decades of cavern engineering experience, RESPEC has developed five in-house software programs that were specifically tailored to the unique analysis requirements of solution-mined caverns.

Optimized In Situ Mining

Our award winning interdisciplinary team uses our innovative drilling design to optimize in situ leaching operations.