_EMStor Alpha Phase will assess the technical and commercial feasibility of repurposing a depleted onshore hydrocarbon field in the East Midlands to store hydrogen. The project will also asses how people living in the vicinity of hydrocarbon fields feel about those assets being re-purposed to storing hydrogen. Hydrogen storage will enable accelerated deployment of Cadent's East Coast Hydrogen Pipeline, delivering low carbon hydrogen that enables industry, power and aviation to switch from fossil fuels and decarbonise. The lead network is Cadent, supported by National Gas, and the remaining partners are British Geological Survey, Edinburgh University, Star Energy, Centrica and Uniper._

This project will determine the feasibility of using innovative remote sensing techniques to improve the rate of success in hydrocarbon exploration and development of onshore UK gas fields. The project will be lead by Adrok Ltd, a company which has been researching atomic dielectric resonance (ADR) as a method of determining elements in the subsurface and the depths of subsurface layers. There have been successful applications of this technology for mineral and hydrocarbon exploration in other countries but to date there has been almost no use of this technology in the UK. Adrok's partner for this project will be IGas Group plc. IGas has more onshore UK fields on production than any other company and is also one of the leading companies for UK shale exploration. In addition, IGas has strong geological expertise and a large database of UK onshore seismic data. In 2016-17 IGas plans to acquire surface geochemistry data and to drill various exploration wells. The objective of the feasibility study will be to investigate how ADR results can be integrated with geological, geophysical and geochemical data to find and develop new onshore UK gas fields more efficiently.