TL; DR: “White hydrogen”. But wait, it’s even less notable than the reader might think:
> Recent work at the Kovykta field in Irkutsk has verified the existence of white hydrogen in the site’s complex mixture of hydrocarbons, methane, helium, and nitrogen. Although the concentration is low, approximately 3%, the discovery signal represents a significant advance in unlocking its potential.
There’s some H2 in the natural gas wells. This is the least surprising thing ever.
> Methane is isolated and exported at this facility via the Power of Siberia pipeline, while other gases are used domestically or sold abroad. Gazprom can modify its activities and incorporate hydrogen recovery to enable, for example, one of the existing cognitive engineering models.
I think that last sentence was written by an LLM.
> If demand for hydrogen continues to be low, the same gas may be re-injected into reservoirs until marketable opportunities present themselves. Laboratory studies are underway to develop scalable technologies for hydrogen isolation from natural gas, and the potential commercial impact is encouraging.
The only extraction potential here is the extraction of cash from tax coffers, I’d say.
It’s a Gazprom press release combined with a political threat to “cut off gas to the world”. Nothing to see here.
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Lol 3% H2 in a gas reservoir. Hardly newsworthy.
TL; DR: “White hydrogen”. But wait, it’s even less notable than the reader might think:
> Recent work at the Kovykta field in Irkutsk has verified the existence of white hydrogen in the site’s complex mixture of hydrocarbons, methane, helium, and nitrogen. Although the concentration is low, approximately 3%, the discovery signal represents a significant advance in unlocking its potential.
There’s some H2 in the natural gas wells. This is the least surprising thing ever.
> Methane is isolated and exported at this facility via the Power of Siberia pipeline, while other gases are used domestically or sold abroad. Gazprom can modify its activities and incorporate hydrogen recovery to enable, for example, one of the existing cognitive engineering models.
I think that last sentence was written by an LLM.
> If demand for hydrogen continues to be low, the same gas may be re-injected into reservoirs until marketable opportunities present themselves. Laboratory studies are underway to develop scalable technologies for hydrogen isolation from natural gas, and the potential commercial impact is encouraging.
The only extraction potential here is the extraction of cash from tax coffers, I’d say.
It’s a Gazprom press release combined with a political threat to “cut off gas to the world”. Nothing to see here.