Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) — Sandia Lab scientists are using computer simulations and laboratory experiments to see if depleted oil and natural gas reservoirs can be used for storing hydrogen fuel. Don Conley, the manager for Sandia’s underground hydrogen storage work says, it can be stored underground in salt caverns, but salt deposits are not widespread across the U.S. So, the team’s studying if hydrogen stored in depleted oil and gas reservoirs will get stuck in the rock, leak out or become contaminated. Conley adds, if we want to create a hydrogen economy, we really need widely distributed means of storing large quantities of the gas.
