Portland Port to enhance its green hydrogen generation capability

As agreed between the parties, UKEn’s planned Energy-Hub development concept seeks to reinvigorate and build further upon a prior unrealised project by Portland Gas Storage, to situate underground salt cavern storage beneath PPL’s land.

Utilising established engineering concepts, public record planning submissions, publicly available data, UKOG internal studies and technical, engineering and economic modelling advice from Xodus Group (“Xodus”), the planned new Energy-Hub is envisaged to include the following key elements:

• A strategically located hydrogen-ready Energy-Hub within an active harbour site;
• Construction of up to 43 bcf (1.2 bcm) of hydrogen-ready salt cavern storage. For context, if this capacity is ultimately achieved it would materially increase the UK’s current reported 61 bcf (1.7 bcm) total working underground gas storage capacity. The envisaged hydrogen-ready build also means the site could hold either hydrogen or natural gas from operational inception;
• Salt cavern storage would be linked to the national pipeline transmission system (“NTS”) via a new planned hydrogen-ready pipeline. As per the prior 2008 project, the new pipeline would be designed with an envisaged capacity designed to be capable of handling up to 1 bcf/day (28 million m³/day). For context, this throughput capacity, if achieved, would equate to approximately one seventh (14%) of current estimated UK daily natural gas consumption;

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Source: safety4sea.com