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EXHIBITION SPE OFFSHORE EUROPE 2023 “CCS and hydrogen projects and challenges will feature highly across the panel and technical sessions as stakeholders and decision makers convene to discuss, debate and make progress on the opportunities and hurdles that the energy transition presents.” – Kamel Ben-Naceur, SPE Ofshore Europe Conference Chairman 2023

Government, Scottish Government and Scottish Ports to applied to any region where petrophysical feld data and investigate the technical and commercial feasibility of ex- offshore wind data are available, to provide a high-level porting hydrogen from offshore wind in the North Sea by assessment of the techno-economic potential of hydro- using liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) to indus- gen storage for coupling with offshore wind generated trial European demand centers. green hydrogen.”

A paper by Kent plc will present recent modelling work Kamel Ben-Naceur, SPE Offshore Europe Conference carried out supporting a Dutch North Sea operator to un- Chairman 2023, said: “CCS and hydrogen projects and derstand the change in risk on their production platform challenges will feature highly across the panel and techni- due to the newly produced hydrogen passing through it. cal sessions as stakeholders and decision makers convene

The University of Aberdeen has mapped the hydrogen to discuss, debate and make progress on the opportunities storage capacities of UK offshore hydrocarbon felds and and hurdles that the energy transition presents.” explored potential synergies with offshore wind. Its fnd- Hydrogen technology and know-how will also be show- ings estimate a total hydrogen storage capacity of 3454 cased on the exhibition foor in the Hydrogen Hub, spon-

TWh within 96 felds investigated, signifcantly exceed- sored by ABB. ing the determined 120 TWh seasonal domestic storage _ The full conference program can be found at: demand. The paper notes that “this methodology can be www.offshore-europe.co.uk

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