Analysis and prospect of natural hydrogen industry development

As a clean energy, the natural hydrogen is expected to become a key energy source for global energy transition and carbon neutrality due to its huge resource potential and renewable nature. Based on the results of scientific and technological literatures and industry information surveys, the authors in this paper have analyzed and studied the participating institutions and their development status of the natural hydrogen industry. The small and medium-sized enterprises with resource exploration and their development as their main goal, and which may play a key role in the development of the natural hydrogen industry were focused as the study objects, and the important progress made by three representative small and medium-sized enterprises at home and abroad in the process of natural hydrogen resource exploration and development was summarized in detail, based on the successful experience of the US shale revolution. In the context of accelerating the research, exploration and development of natural hydrogen resources in China, relevant functional government agencies represented by the Ministry of Natural Resources and its affiliated China Geological Survey, the National Development and Reform Commission and its affiliated National Energy Administration should strengthen the progress analysis of the natural hydrogen industry, scientific research roadmap preparation, technical method prospect and forecast research, policy research, industrialization research, etc., to encourage the development of the natural hydrogen industry with scientific research institutions, small and medium-sized enterprises, and large mining and energy enterprises as the main body. This research could provide references for accelerating the deployment of the natural hydrogen industry in China.