While building underground oil cavern,JTC study Underground

lionnoisy SG

While building underground oil cavern,SG is planning a underground science city.

So sad,this news has not been reported by ST and zaobao.

This is not showing off,but to show we just struggle to survive in this

ping pong ball size country!!

The underground science city has been studied by NTU for some times.

Pl my quote below.

This red dot is beyond your imgaination!!

This is the third big underground project,after Ammo Facility in Mandai

and oil cavern in Jurong Island.

ungerground ammo facility

Friday July 24 2009

SINGAPORE, July 22 — The term “underground economy” has taken on a whole new meaning as Singapore pushes beneath the land surface to house R&D laboratories and data centres: it proposes to set up an Underground Science City (USC) at Kent Ridge.

There are moves afoot to get detailed designs and cost estimates for the project, which spans a 20-hectare geological formation below Science Parks 1, 2 and 3 as well as Kent Ridge Park.

The USC project is also in the vicinity of One-North, National University of Singapore and National University Hospital, where research and development activities are actively pursued.

The push for the USC follows the government's recent green light to start building the billion-dollar Jurong Rock Cavern (JRC) on Jurong Island to store oil and petrochemicals.

JTC Corporation — which called a tender yesterday for a consultant to carry out feasibility studies on the USC — said that the project was needed given the limited land available for new investments at Kent Ridge, following the earlier substantial developments at the three Science Parks.

The USC is part of a wide-ranging, 10-usage underground rock cavern feasibility study called by the government in May last year. Other possible underground uses being looked at by that study include power stations, incineration plants, water reclamation plants, warehouses, wafer fab plants and an airport logistics facility.

This islandwide study — being carried out by the Sintef-Tritech-Multiconsult consortium — is, however, not site or location-specific. It is nearly completed and interim reports from this will be made available to the consultant appointed for the latest USC feasibility study, JTC said.

JTC added that the first studies on the proposed USC project by various bodies and corporations had concluded by 2001 that it was technically feasible to develop an underground cavern at Kent Ridge for R&D facilities.

But with advancements in technologies for cavern construction, JTC said that it was necessary to review the previous findings.

Hence the USC consultant — working within a 14-month timeline — will now reassess the maximum-size cavern complex that can be built, as well as other factors like its impact on the environment and working population at Kent Ridge. It will also have to provide ballpark construction estimates for the USC's three preliminary designs.

Under a second stage of the project, JTC said that it is also preparing to call a tender for soil and rock investigation works at Kent Ridge to prepare for the USC's cavern design. The USC consultant will help provide inputs for this.

When that is completed, the USC project will then proceed to its third phase of detailed concept design, which will include the cavern's layout and design, space distribution for the specified usages, surface and subsurface facilities, and cavern access and circulation.

Here, the consultant will need to provide data like projected user demand, method of excavation and the impact of the cavern construction on existing surface developments. It will also have to consider issues like tremors from earthquakes, and address the psychological effect of working in caverns.

The latest USC study follows JTC's award in April of the main S$890 million (RM2.1 billion) construction contract for Phase One of the JRC on Jurong Island to Hyundai Engineering & Construction.

Actual building of the underground facility will begin this year-end, with the first two caverns providing 480,000 cubic metres of oil storage when ready in the first half of 2013. The entire Phase One, comprising five caverns, will provide a total 1.47 million cu m of storage when completed by 2014. — Singapore BT

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Feasibility Study For Underground Science City at Kent Ridge

--tender notice

Underground oil cavern will increase SG oil storage capacity--

urong Island underground cavern show case SG Can-Do spirit

Jan – Mar 2004 No 51
www.ntu.edu.sg/pro/ntu+news/

29. NTU janmar [Preview] [Similar]

''If the go-ahead is given, construction
of 32 underground hydrocarbon caverns
– each 125,000m3 in size and capable of
storing up to 4 million m3 of oil and gas
– could start as early as June this year.
If built, the storage complex would
be among the largest of its kind in the
world. Caverns for crude oil and LPG
have been built in countries such as
Norway, France, UK, and Korea.

NTU has been leading underground
space studies since 1990.
It has conducted feasibility studies
in the Bukit Timah area for the Defence
Ministry’s Underground Ammunition
Facility caverns project and in the Kent
Ridge area for the Underground Science
City project.
In the case of Jurong Island, going
underground makes economic sense and
frees up land for commercial projects.
Safety is another plus – there is little risk
of explosion due to accident, leakage
or attack, dangers associated with most
surface storage systems.''

mnn

storywolf SG

underground science city ? Raccon city - zombies ?

lionnoisy SG

This is the third big underground project,after Ammo Facility in Mandai

and oil cavern in Jurong Island.

ungerground ammo facility--page 2

fr STimes , 28 July, 2001

Each 13-m-high cavern can accommodate six basketball courts side by side.
For security reasons, the Defence Ministry is not revealing the number of the caverns nor how deep they have been dug.(see my opening posting)
Blast door at every chamber can withstand a 250-tons explosion and prevent it from spreading to other chambers.

Lu5ck SG

Whoa...this is nice...

Can't wait for a high-tech city below us....

But oil below us like dangerous leh, what if it explode? the land above collapse into the hole ah? Like that the whole jurong island sink liao?

ditzy SG

Another unpublished piece of news is that Singapore is sinking into the sea at a rate of 15cm a year.

Chew Bakar SG

Another unpublished piece of news is that Singapore is sinking into the sea at a rate of 15cm a year.

Too overloaded with buildings?

Atobe SG

If only the pussy learn to be more modest and less noisy about everything Singapore has done, can be done, will be doing - life will go on in a more modest fashion.

It was said that the late Budhist Monk Hong Chuan Fa Shi - from Bright Hill Temple - had advised that there are 9 dragons residing under Singapore and had supported the prosperity of Singapore since the 1819 founding.

Not many countries have such a fortuitous occurence of 9 dragons converging and to co-exist together at one location - and had provided good 'Feng Shui'.

When the MRT system was first mooted in the late 1970s and work begun in the early 1980s, the venerable monk had also advised against an underground MRT system that would disrupt the happy slumber of the 9 dragons, and Singapore's prosperity and fortune will be severely disrupted for good.

The good advise went unheeded.

Whether it was by fate or by events forewarned, the first economic downturn to hit Singapore - since 1939 Global Recession - had occurred in 1987, and again in 1997, and 2001, 2002 through to 2005, and before we got through the aftershocks of 2005, we were hit again in 2008.

The short interval between shocks that occurred from 2002 through 2008 seems to co-incide with the deep tunnel system for the sewage lines that cut across north-south and east-west directions and went deeper then the MRT system, as well as the under ground ammo site that was completed about 2 years ago.

Singapore will have to prepare for worst to come, when more tunnels and caverns are dug deeper under Singapore.

The Feng Shui has been broken, the slumber of the 9 dragons have been disrupted and the fury has been revealed.

Obviously the noisy pussy will not appreciate the sound advise of a monk, nor even respect the dragons, as the pussy is only interested in his fantasy to be a noisy lion.

starExcaliblur SG

Too overloaded with buildings?

And also too overload with foreigners

Chew Bakar SG

And also too overload with foreigners

Agreeable.

Chew Bakar SG

If only the pussy learn to be more modest and less noisy about everything Singapore has done, can be done, will be doing - life will go on in a more modest fashion.

Not many countries have such a fortuitous occurence of 9 dragons converging and to co-exist together at one location - and had provided good 'Feng Shui'.

The good advise went unheeded.

Singapore will have to prepare for worst to come, when more tunnels and caverns are dug deeper under Singapore.

The Feng Shui has been broken, the slumber of the 9 dragons have been disrupted and the fury has been revealed.

Obviously the noisy pussy will not appreciate the sound advise of a monk, nor even respect the dragons, as the pussy is only interested in his fantasy to be a noisy lion.

Nice kitty kitty...