A vital survey to understand the ability of the huge Rough gas storage facility to resume operations has been completed.
The asset - capable of holding 100 billion cubic feet of gas - almost double the existing infrastructure, is being readied for a return to help ease concerns through the energy crisis.
Vital supplies can be held during the winter to ensure it is there when demand peaks. Having been mothballed in 2017 by owner Centrica due to the associated costs and market dynamics, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the emerging Humber hydrogen production industry led to a rethink - with reuse and repurposing now top of the agenda with a £1.6 billion plan first revealed last summer.
