PHS Consulting - Gas Storage Case Study

A major UK manufacturing company knew it had the capability to construct bespoke natural gas storage, and that it was probably in a unique position in this particular technology. The challenge was to understand the regulatory regime, its impact on the market and how these matched with their technological capability in sufficient depth to identify the appropriate market niche.

A small project team was put together to collectively examine the problem. They developed the thinking in a number of areas:

ˇ	The nature and costs and value commercially available gas storage in the UK

ˇ	The impact of the regulatory environment on the future needs for gas storage

Confidential interviews were conducted with leading individuals in the industry to gauge their thinking.

This work demonstrated that there was a potential niche and discussions were held with a number of organisations leading to a project proposal which is being actively developed by a major utility company.