Course 10 of 20 · Hydrogen Desk Academy

Storage, Transport & Delivery Contracts

Stage C, Exposure, delivery and derivative demand. Level 5 of 10.

Storage, pipeline, trucking and shipping agreements: capacity rights, loss and boil-off terms, nomination regimes and liability allocation.

120 chapters · 12 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 02, Course 04, Course 07

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How a chapter is delivered

One chapter is one idea taken to the point of use

Each chapter covers one idea to the point where you can use it, and comes two ways: a narrated explainer, and a deep dive audio discussion of around thirty minutes that works the same material at depth.

Self-paced throughout, and the same chapters can be taught as a cohort. Chapters run in order: each one assumes only what the chapters before it taught, and capability belonging to a later course is named and deferred rather than half-covered.

Curriculum

12 modules · 120 chapters

Open any module for its full chapter list, in teaching order.

M0 Movement as a Contracted Capability Ch 1-10
  1. Why the Molecule Moves on Its Own Contract
  2. The Four Modes and Which Ones Operate at Scale
  3. Who Holds Capacity and Who Merely Has Access
  4. The Seat You Are Sitting In
  5. A Molecule That Leaks, Embrittles and Boils Off
  6. Transport Service Against Delivered Supply
  7. Where the Movement Cost Enters the Picture
  8. The Announced Pipeline Is Not Capacity
  9. What Breaks When the Route Is Assumed
  10. Map of This Course and What Sits Elsewhere
M1 Hydrogen Pipelines: What Exists and What Is Contracted Ch 11-20
  1. The Industrial Gas Pipeline Networks Operating Today
  2. The Hydrogen Supply Agreement Behind a Pipeline Connection
  3. The Connection Agreement and the Point of Entry
  4. Pressure Is the Real Constraint, Not Diameter
  5. Compression Service and Who Pays for the Energy
  6. Repurposed Methane Lines and the Conversion Question
  7. Third-Party Access to a Hydrogen Network
  8. Negotiated Access Where No Regulated Regime Exists
  9. The Single-Line Estate and Its Dependency
  10. Reading a Hydrogen Transport Tariff Sheet
M2 Blending Into Gas Networks and Deblending Ch 21-30
  1. Injecting Hydrogen Into a Methane Network
  2. The Blend Limit as a Network Rule, Not a Number
  3. Interchangeability and the Receiving Appliance
  4. The Injection Agreement With a Network Operator
  5. Summer Minimum Flow and the Absorption Ceiling
  6. Who Owns the Molecule After It Blends
  7. Deblending and Who Pays for Separation
  8. The Blend Buyer Who Needs a Guarantee of Purity
  9. The Case For and Against Blending, With Its Assumptions
  10. A Blending Deal Scoped Honestly
M3 Pipeline Capacity, Nomination and Imbalance Ch 31-40
  1. Firm and Interruptible Rights on a Hydrogen Line
  2. Booking Capacity Where There Is No Auction
  3. The Term Capacity Commitment and Its Shadow
  4. Nominating Hydrogen Against an Electrolyser's Output
  5. The Nomination Cycle and Its Cut-Off
  6. A Failed Nomination and Who Carries It
  7. Imbalance in a System With Almost No Linepack
  8. Curtailment, Maintenance and the Outage Nobody Scheduled
  9. Reselling or Releasing Capacity You Cannot Use
  10. A Month of Pipeline Movement, Worked
M4 Line Loss, Permeation and Embrittlement Liability Ch 41-50
  1. Loss Allowance as an Allocation Mechanism
  2. Loss Where the Carrier Owns the Molecule
  3. Permeation and Small-Molecule Leakage
  4. Unaccounted-For Gas and the Reconciliation Argument
  5. Hydrogen Embrittlement as a Contract Risk
  6. Who Warrants the Asset Is Fit for Hydrogen
  7. Contamination Entering From the Transport System
  8. Leakage as an Emissions Question, Not Only a Volume One
  9. Metering Hydrogen Well Enough to Argue About It
  10. A Loss Clause Negotiated From Both Seats
M5 Compressed Gas Trucking Agreements Ch 51-60
  1. The Tube Trailer as Container and Store
  2. What a Trailer Holds and What You Can Actually Use
  3. Invoiced at Loading or Invoiced at the Meter
  4. Vessel Certification and the Papers a Trailer Carries
  5. Who Owns the Trailer, and What That Decides
  6. Trailer Detention and the Demurrage of a Rolling Store
  7. Telemetry and the Vendor-Managed Delivery Promise
  8. Scheduling Deliveries Against a Variable Production Site
  9. Road Risk, Insurance and the Driver Nobody Costed
  10. A Compressed Supply Agreement, Clause by Clause
M6 Liquid Hydrogen Trucking and Boil-Off Allocation Ch 61-70
  1. Why Anyone Liquefies for the Road
  2. Boil-Off as a Contract Term Rather Than a Physical Fact
  3. Measuring at Fill or at Discharge
  4. Hold Time, Standing Loss and the Queue at the Gate
  5. The Right to Vent and the Duty to Avoid It
  6. Cooldown and the Cost of a Warm Tank
  7. Ortho-Para Conversion and the Loss You Cannot See
  8. Guaranteed Loss Terms and What They Really Promise
  9. Backhaul, Empty Running and the Trailer That Must Return
  10. A Liquid Delivery Costed Both Ways
M7 Subsurface Storage Agreements Ch 71-81
  1. Why a Hydrogen Position Needs Storage at All
  2. Salt Caverns That Already Hold Hydrogen
  3. The Storage Service Agreement and Its Three Rights
  4. Cushion Gas as the Cavern's Minimum Operating Inventory
  5. What Recovering Cushion Gas Would Take to Evidence
  6. Deliverability Falls as the Cavern Empties
  7. Cycling Limits and the Flexibility You Did Not Buy
  8. Purity In, Purity Out, and the Microbial Problem
  9. Depleted Fields, Aquifers and Lined Rock Compared
  10. Loss in the Ground and How It Is Shared
  11. Booking a Storage Season You May Not Need
M8 Surface Storage, Buffer Duty and On-Site Vessels Ch 82-90
  1. The Buffer at the Fence and What It Absorbs
  2. Tube Banks, Spheres and the Pressure They Hold
  3. Who Owns the Storage on the Customer's Land
  4. The Consignment Stock Arrangement
  5. Standing Loss From a Liquid Tank on Site
  6. Minimum Stock Covenants and the Run-Out Clause
  7. Safety Separation Distances as a Commercial Constraint
  8. Sizing a Buffer Against the Delivery Promise
  9. Storage Rights Recorded in an ETRM
M9 Marine Movement and Terminal Access for Hydrogen Carriers Ch 91-101
  1. Why Hydrogen Crosses Water as Something Else
  2. The Terminal Access Agreement at an Ammonia Berth
  3. Shore Tank Capacity as the Binding Right
  4. Ammonia Storage and the Standards Behind the Tank
  5. Boil-Off and Composition Change on a Carrier Cargo
  6. The Liquid Hydrogen Carrier Argument and Its Assumptions
  7. Loading and Discharge Terms Peculiar to Ammonia
  8. Reconversion at Destination and Who Contracts It
  9. Methanol and Liquid Organic Carriers at a Jetty
  10. A Single Import Chain, Contract by Contract
  11. What Marine Movement Cannot Fix
M10 Delivery Point, Title and Liability Allocation Ch 102-111
  1. The Delivery Point as the Hinge of Everything
  2. Separating the Moment of Sale From the Moment of Risk
  3. Measurement at the Boundary and the Basis of Sale
  4. Who Bears a Failed Nomination, Across All Four Modes
  5. Force Majeure in an Estate With One of Everything
  6. Liability Caps, Indemnities and the Consequential Loss Carve-Out
  7. Interface Risk Between Two Contracts That Nearly Meet
  8. Back-to-Back or Mismatched: Aligning Movement With Offtake
  9. The Security Posted Before Firm Capacity Is Granted
  10. Reading a Movement Contract From the Other Side
M11 The Movement Set, a Worked Case and the Limits Ch 112-120
  1. The Estate We Will Contract
  2. Securing the Route, Part One: Choosing the Modes
  3. Securing the Route, Part Two: The Terms Agreed
  4. The Quarter When the Cavern Was Unavailable
  5. The Loss Register for a Live Movement Position
  6. Renegotiating a Movement Contract Mid-Term
  7. The Movement Questions to Settle Before Signing Anything
  8. What Movement Contracting Cannot Do
  9. Where These Terms Are Relied On Next

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