The 2019 event took place in association with the EGATEC Conference on 6-8 November in Groningen, before an audience of more than 150 industry executives and policy makers.

The six themes explored by the Conference were Greening the Gas, Gas Utilisation, Sector Integration, Cleaning Energy / Methane Emissions, Decarbonising Natural Gas and Mobility. This diversity of subjects was echoed in the presentations of the Young Researchers Awards finalists, who impressed the audience with their innovative ideas and motivation. The booklet of abstracts can be found below. 

After a pitch presentation from each of the finalists, the young researchers discussed their findings and got feedback from the conference goers during a poster session.

A jury of gas industry professionals and academia had the difficult task to decide on three prizes to reward the best projects. It was a close match this year, but the winners are: Martin Kientz, for his work ‘Renewable Methane Production by Catalytic reduction of CO2 using sunlight’, Perla Haddad, with ‘Research on the Injection of New Gases into Storages’, and Ernstjan de Boer, who presented his ‘Future Scenarios for Reassignment of Existing Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines for Hydrogen in Europe’. 

GERG President Murès Zarea presented the prizes for the top three performances. He remarked that all of the participants of the Awards were winners in their own right, and had earned the opportunity to connect with the high level audience through the quality of their work. We look forward to updates on their research!