The Last Fortnight Comes Out of the Cavern

Late-winter deliverability and a cavern hold-back rule for one inland gas region

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions stress-tests one inland region's three underground gas stores against a fourteen-day cold spell placed at each of fifteen start weeks across 41 reconstructed winters, finding that late-winter shortfalls arrive with about a third of the working gas still in store, and that holding the salt cavern, the smallest store, at 60% until mid-February removes most of them.

@misc{slop_pf89ex,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Bram Ntuli and Kwame Lindqvist},
  title        = {The Last Fortnight Comes Out of the Cavern: Late-winter deliverability and a cavern hold-back rule for one inland gas region},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.pf89ex},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-an-energy-security-study-pf89ex/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}