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Aberdeen’s Exceed Secures Centrica Rough Contract

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Energy Voice.

This is the sub-heading.

Well and reservoir management firm Exceed has secured a contract with Centrica Energy Storage for the redevelopment of the Rough gas storage field.

This is the introductory paragraph.

Exceed said its role in the initial stages of the project, which is exploring converting the Rough field into a hydrogen storage facility, could create more than 30 jobs.

In Wood To Optimise Hydrogen Storage For Centrica’s Rough Field, I talked about changing Rough from a gas to a hydrogen store, so it looks like Centrica are going to create a vast hydrogen storage facility.

This all fits with my belief, that Centrica’s Rough facility and SSE’s nearby Aldbrough storage facility, will at sometime in the future be connected to the Germany hydrogen pipeline; AquaVentus to perform backup to hydrogen produced in the North Sea.

I also feel that the hydrogen trading will be of benefit to Centrica and SSE.

The last section of the Energy Voice article is entitled Rough Hydrogen Storage Concerns.

The following facts are given.

There are currently eight geological gas storage sites across Great Britain, containing approximately 3.1bcm in capacity and maximum deliverability rates of 124mcm/day.

Five of these gas storage sites are in salt caverns while the remaining three are depleted oil and gas fields, with the Centrica’s Rough field in the North Sea the only site located offshore.

The British Geological Survey estimates the UK could store up to 3,000 TWh of hydrogen.

Currently, we use the following energy in a year.

• 263 TWh of electricity
• 705 TWh of natural gas

So we use a total of 968 TWh of energy.

3,000 TWh of hydrogen would keep the UK going for three years. So we should be fine!

November 4, 2024 - Posted by AnonW | Energy, Energy Storage, Hydrogen | Aldbrough Gas Storage, AquaVentus, Centrica, Exceed, Natural Gas, Rough Gas Storage, Salt Caverns, SSE, Wood