Summary
Authors:
Maxine Akhurst
Jonathan Pearce
Omid Shahrokhi
Lin Ma
John Williams
British Geological Survey
Heriot-Watt University
University of Manchester
MaxStoreUK’s webinar series hosted by BGS and IDRIC
The MaxStoreUK Webinar 2: Humberside, Teesside and Bacton-Thames clusters took place on 3rd March 2026.
The webinar shared findings from previous IDRIC-funded projects and explored how the MaxStoreUK project will build on this research to advance regional CO₂ and hydrogen storage potential. It also provided an opportunity for stakeholders in the Humberside, Teesside and Bacton-Thames clusters to engage with researchers and to inform MaxStoreUK’s incremental research programme.
Research presentations:
- Scaling Up Hydrogen Storage for UK Industrial Clusters: Connecting Core-scale Physics to Macro-scale Strategy, Omid Shahrokhi, Heriot-Watt University
- Enabling Grid-Scale Hydrogen Storage in Porous Rocks: A Pore-scale Experimental Perspective, Lin Ma, University of Manchester
- Southern North Sea CO2 Storage: CO2Stored 2.0 updates and planned 2.1 refresh, Maxine Akhurst, British Geological Survey
- UK Capacity of Imported CO2 Storage and Southern North Sea Appraisal Timeline, Jonathan Pearce, British Geological Survey
- The Central North Sea, a Frontier Region for UK CO2 Storage, John Williams, British Geological Survey
This project, led by BGS, in collaboration with IDRIC is funded by EPSRC (award number APP50312: MaxStoreUK). The views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of IDRIC. Neither IDRIC, BGS, nor EPSRC can be held responsible for them.
Associated Research
IDRIC – MIP 1.2 Industrial Clusters: Evaluating CO2 Underground in Bunter Closures (ICECUBE)
IDRIC – MIP 3.2 Hydrogen storage and transport networks for net-zero industrial clusters
IDRIC – MIP 4.4 Quantification of the UK CO2 storage export potential to drive down the cost of carbon capture and storage (CCS)
IDRIC – MIP 6.4 CO2Stored 2.0 – Next generation of the UK’s CO2 storage database
IDRIC – MIP 7.4 Enabling hydrogen storage near industrial clusters (Phase 1)
IDRIC – MIP 7.8 Enabling hydrogen storage near industrial clusters (Phase 2): enhancing confidence in porous rock storage