Jurong Rock Caverns

The Jurong Rock Caverns (JRC) (Chinese: ----, Malay: Gua Batu Simpanan Barang Mentah Jurong) is the first underground rock cavern for oil storage in Southeast Asia. It is owned by Jurong Town Corporation. The rock caverns were officially opened on 2 September 2014 by the third Singapore Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong.

Located at a depth of 130 m (430 ft) beneath Banyan Basin on Jurong Island, the 61-hectare (150-acre) caverns house 4,200 scientists,^[1] provide infrastructural support to companies on Jurong Island such as Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron Philips, and meet the storage needs for liquid hydrocarbons such as crude oil, condensate, naphtha and gas oil.

The first phase comprises five 340 m (1,120 ft) long, 20 m (66 ft) wide and 27 m (89 ft) high caverns with nine storage galleries providing 1,470,000 cubic metres (52,000,000 cu ft) of storage, and 8 km (5 mi) of tunnels costing SGD 1.7 billion. The second phase is foreseen to double this capacity.^[2]

References

1. ↑ "Spooky cities: the world's strangest underground cities – in pictures". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 January 2015. 
2. ↑ "Five things to know about the Jurong Rock Caverns - Explainers - The Straits Times". Retrieved 6 January 2015.