Rough’s return to providing vital gas storage to enhance the UK’s energy security situation has moved a step forward.
The North Sea Transition Authority has granted the required approvals and consents to Centrica for phase one of the site, off the East Yorkshire coast. The organisation, formerly Oil and Gas Authority, has confirmed the Hessle-based team now has all the required regulatory approvals to begin gas storage operations.
As revealed in May, Centrica was seeking a “rapid hardening of hydrogen policy” to enable it to play a key role in the short term, as it builds the business case to make the strategic switch to storing the low carbon fuel that is set to be produced at huge scale on the Humber.
