dCarbonX awarded gateway gas storage licence
Published by Willow Munz,
Editorial Assistant
Tanks and Terminals,
The UK's North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has offered a new gas storage licence to dCarbonX for the ‘Gateway’ hydrogen salt cavern storage project in the East Irish Sea. This new licence, currently designated as GS008, sits immediately to the east of the GS007 ‘Bains’ licence (awarded to dCarbonX in 2023) where dCarbonX is developing the depleted Bains gas field for a 1.4 billion m3 offshore gas storage facility.
Subject to further regulatory approvals, dCarbonX proposes to develop the Gateway salt caverns in modular economic steps, synchronised with the market, for future hydrogen offshore storage with an estimated total energy storage capacity potential of some 9 TWh, providing a major boost for the UK's decarbonisation plans in the decades ahead.
dCarbonX is a subsidiary of Snam, a European operator in gas infrastructure, focusing on transportation, with a network exceeding 40 000 km across Italy and abroad; in storage, holding one-sixth of the European Union's entire storage capacity (around 18 billion m3); and in regasification, where it currently ranks as the third largest European player, managing (or co-managing) an annual capacity of 28 billion m3.
Read the article online at: https://www.tanksterminals.com/storage-tanks/15082025/dcarbonx-awarded-gateway-gas-storage-licence/