Conference Agenda

Session
04.04 Hydrogen in the energy transition –white to green hydrogen and subsurface storage
Time:
Wednesday, 17/Sept/2025:
8:30am - 10:00am

Session Chair: Maximilian Hasch, BGR (Federal Institution for Geoscience and Ressources, Germany)
Session Chair: María Belén Febbo, German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ
Location: ZHG 004

85 PAX

Presentations
8:30am - 9:00am
Invited Session Keynote
Topics: 04.04 Hydrogen in the energy transition – white to green hydrogen and subsurface storage

The role of cushion gas in hydrogen storage

Niklas Heinemann

The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom



9:00am - 9:15am
Topics: 04.04 Hydrogen in the energy transition – white to green hydrogen and subsurface storage

Geochemical reactivity of hydrogen with sandstone reservoir rocks: feasibility of underground porous storage

Chaojie Cheng, Benjamin Busch, Agnes Kontny, Christoph Hilgers

KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Germany



9:15am - 9:30am
Topics: 04.04 Hydrogen in the energy transition – white to green hydrogen and subsurface storage

Hydro-Geomechanical Reservoir Modelling of Underground Hydrogen Storage in a Saline Aquifer of the North German Basin

Anna-Maria Eckel, María Belén Febbo, Hannes Hofmann, Cornelia Schmidt-Hattenberger

Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany



9:30am - 9:45am
Topics: 04.04 Hydrogen in the energy transition – white to green hydrogen and subsurface storage

How much natural hydrogen must be present down there?

Dieter Franke, Andreas Bahr, Meike Bagge, Peter Klitzke, Christine Thiel, Ruediger Lutz, Christian Ostertag-Henning, Martin Blumenberg

BGR, Germany



9:45am - 10:00am
Topics: 04.04 Hydrogen in the energy transition – white to green hydrogen and subsurface storage

Natural hydrogen emanations in northern Bavaria - soil gas surveys across three fault systems

Felix Gsell1, Julius Liebermann1, Harald Stollhofen1, Jürgen Grötsch1,2

1Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany; 2Tellus Energy Solutions GmbH, Germany