Fluxys has announced the start of construction of the first phase of its hydrogen pipeline network in Belgium.

The results of HYBRIT’s pilot project for hydrogen gas storage demonstrate that it is technically feasible to store fossil-free hydrogen gas for the production of fossil-free iron and steel on an industrial scale. This can also reduce the variable operating costs of hydrogen production by up to 40%.

Nord Steel has secured a €1.4 million contract with the EPC contractor MT Group to manufacture and supply hydrogen storage tanks for the upcoming green hydrogen production and refueling station at the Port of Klaipėda in Lithuania.

Höegh Evi has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the port of Port-La Nouvelle to develop a floating terminal for hydrogen imports. The hydrogen will be imported from producers in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Americas.

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a new technology for the seasonal storage of hydrogen that is considered much safer and cheaper than existing solutions. This method involves a reaction between hydrogen and iron oxide, resulting in iron that is easy to store and can later be converted back into hydrogen and iron oxide.

On 26 August, Uniper held an opening ceremony for the Hydrogen Pilot Cavern (HPC) demonstration plant in Krummhörn, Germany. The pilot cavern will be used to investigate and test the full potential of a salt cavern specially built for the storage of green hydrogen under operational conditions.

Tata Steel and Welspun Corp have developed hydrogen-compliant API X65 grade pipes, which successfully surpassed all necessary critical sour service and fracture qualification tests for the transportation of 100% pure gaseous hydrogen under high pressure (100 bar) at RINA, Italy.

Norwegian floating LNG infrastructure provider Höegh LNG has signed an agreement with Deutsche ReGas, a mid-sized company in the European energy infrastructure sector and operator of privately financed LNG terminals in Germany, to realize a floating hydrogen import terminal in Lubmin.

Lhyfe recently delivered 350 kg of green hydrogen to Géométhane, a subsidiary of the ENGIE Group, for testing hydrogen injection into salt caverns at its Manosque site in southern France. Currently, Géométhane stores natural gas in these caverns. This experiment aims to study the behaviour of hydrogen when stored in the salt caverns.