Hard-rock expertise applied to every commodity that needs to go underground.
From strategic petroleum
reserves to hydrogen.
Geology is always the
starting point.
Across federal agencies, oil and gas operators, and new energy storage developers, the technical foundation behind every engagement is the same hard-rock cavern expertise applied to what the specific commodity, operating pressure, and site geology require.
Hydrocarbon Storage Caverns
Lane has managed the design and construction of every new hard-rock cavern developed in the United States since the 1980s, as well as projects overseas. Using conventional mining techniques, we construct mined hard-rock caverns for the safe, long-term storage of LPGs, refined products, crude oil, and natural gas. With the average service life of a hard-rock cavern exceeding 50 years, our team also supports operators with maintenance, regulatory testing, and life extension work on existing assets.
01/06
Federal Strategic Energy Storage
For 40 years, Lane’s team has provided continuous technical support for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the world’s largest strategic crude oil stockpile. The team has supported federal programs on life extension and underground mining modernization, holding security clearances up to the Top Secret level.
02/06
Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
Hard-rock caverns provide the pressure containment, structural integrity, and excavated volume that utility-scale CAES systems require. Lane brings the same cavern design and construction capability developed across decades of hydrocarbon storage directly to the pressure and cycling requirements of CAES applications.
03/06
Hydrogen Storage
Lane engaged in hydrogen storage design for a U.S. National Laboratory. That engagement gives Lane a direct project reference at an institutional level that matters to developers, investors, and federal program offices evaluating underground hydrogen storage feasibility.
04/06
Pumped Hydro
Large-scale pumped hydro facilities require underground construction for powerhouse chambers, surge shafts, and lower reservoir development. We provide the underground delivery capability that keeps the subsurface scope on schedule and technically integrated with the surface systems being built above it.
05/06
Oil & Gas Support Facilities
Lane provides design and construction services for the surface and near-surface infrastructure that puts a cavern asset into operation. This work is designed around a direct understanding of what the cavern can do, which is what separates well-integrated surface infrastructure from the kind that creates operational constraints the cavern was never designed to accommodate.
06/06