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Measured<\/em><\/h1>\n <div class=\"hero-meta\">\n <span>\ud83d\udcc5 June 9, 2026<\/span>\n <span>\u270d hydrogen.al<\/span>\n <span>\u23f1 6 min read<\/span>\n <span>\ud83d\udcd6 Source: Science, vol. 383, Feb 2024<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"article-wrap\">\n\n <p class=\"article-lead\">In February 2024, a team of geochemists from the Universit\u00e9 Grenoble Alpes, CNRS and their Albanian colleagues published a landmark paper in Science \u2014 one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals. Beneath the Bulqiz\u00eb chromite mine in Albania, nearly one kilometre underground, they found a pool of water seething with hydrogen gas \u2014 described by those who witnessed it as a 30 m\u00b2 jacuzzi bubbling with almost pure H\u2082. The flow rate was measured at a minimum of 200 tonnes per year at 84% purity. It was the largest natural hydrogen flow rate ever recorded at that time. This discovery changed the way the scientific world thinks about geological hydrogen.<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"stats-row\">\n <div class=\"stat-card\">\n <span class=\"stat-n\">200 t<\/span>\n <span class=\"stat-l\">Minimum H\u2082 flow per year \u00b7 Bulqiz\u00eb mine \u00b7 confirmed in Science<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"stat-card\">\n <span class=\"stat-n\">84%<\/span>\n <span class=\"stat-l\">H\u2082 purity measured on-site \u00b7 rest methane and nitrogen<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"stat-card\">\n <span class=\"stat-n\">950 m<\/span>\n <span class=\"stat-l\">Depth of hydrogen pool in the mine galleries<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"stat-card\">\n <span class=\"stat-n\">2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"stat-l\">Publication date \u00b7 Science vol. 383 \u00b7 February 8<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"article-body\">\n\n <h2>The Mine \u2014 <em>A Chromium Deposit That Hid a Hydrogen Secret<\/em><\/h2>\n\n <p>The Bulqiz\u00eb mine, located approximately 40 kilometres northeast of Tirana, is one of the world’s largest chromium mines and one of Albania’s most important industrial assets. Since 2001, it has been owned by Empire Mining Corporation of Canada. It cuts deep into an ancient geological formation called an ophiolite \u2014 a fragment of Jurassic oceanic crust that was thrust onto the continental shelf millions of years ago when Africa collided with Europe and closed an ancient sea.<\/p>\n\n <p>The mine has a troubled safety history. Since 1992, it has experienced at least three major explosions \u2014 in 2011, 2017, and 2023. For years, the cause was assumed to be methane, the gas typically associated with underground mining accidents. It was only when scientists gained access to the deepest galleries that the true culprit was identified: <strong>almost pure hydrogen gas<\/strong>, produced continuously by the geological reactions occurring in the iron-rich rocks surrounding the mine.<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"article-img\">\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1581094794329-c8112a89af12?w=1200&q=80&fit=crop\" alt=\"underground mine gallery rock geological formation hydrogen ophiolite Albania\">\n <div class=\"article-img-cap\">Deep underground mine gallery \u2014 similar to the conditions at Bulqiz\u00eb, where geologists accessed galleries at ~950m depth to measure hydrogen outgassing \u00b7 the 30 m\u00b2 pool described as a “jacuzzi bubbling with almost pure H\u2082” was located in a water drainage basin at this depth \u00b7 Photo: Unsplash<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <h2>The Science \u2014 <em>Why Ophiolites Produce Hydrogen<\/em><\/h2>\n\n <p>The geological explanation for Bulqiz\u00eb’s hydrogen is serpentinisation \u2014 the same process responsible for natural hydrogen production in Lorraine, the Canadian Shield, and South Australia. The ophiolitic rocks surrounding the mine are rich in iron-bearing minerals (olivine, pyroxene). When groundwater percolates into these rocks at elevated temperatures and pressures, it reacts with the iron, oxidising it and releasing hydrogen gas as a continuous byproduct. The Bulqiz\u00eb ophiolite is particularly well-suited to this process because it preserves a thick sequence of upper mantle rocks that have been in contact with groundwater for millions of years.<\/p>\n\n <p>What makes Bulqiz\u00eb exceptional is not the process itself \u2014 serpentinisation occurs in many places \u2014 but the <strong>presence of a fault zone acting as a natural reservoir<\/strong>. The researchers demonstrated through in-situ observations and numerical modelling that a deep, faulted reservoir rooted in the Jurassic ophiolite massif accumulates hydrogen produced over geological time and releases it progressively. The mine galleries have perforated this reservoir at several well-localised points, allowing scientists to measure the flow directly.<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"key-box\">\n <div class=\"key-box-title\">Bulqiz\u00eb Discovery \u2014 Key Scientific Facts<\/div>\n <ul>\n <li><strong>Study<\/strong> \u2014 Truche et al. \u2014 “A deep reservoir for hydrogen drives intense degassing in the Bulqiz\u00eb ophiolite” \u2014 Science, vol. 383, no. 6683, February 8, 2024<\/li>\n <li><strong>Authors<\/strong> \u2014 Laurent Truche, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric-Victor Donz\u00e9 (ISTerre, Univ. Grenoble Alpes \u00b7 CNRS) + Albanian colleagues (NANR-AKBN Tirana \u00b7 Polytechnic University of Tirana)<\/li>\n <li><strong>Measurement<\/strong> \u2014 84% H\u2082 by volume \u00b7 minimum 200 t\/year \u00b7 measured directly in mine galleries at ~950m depth<\/li>\n <li><strong>Reservoir<\/strong> \u2014 deep faulted zone in Jurassic ophiolite massif \u00b7 not just surface outgassing \u00b7 genuine subsurface accumulation<\/li>\n <li><strong>Formation mechanism<\/strong> \u2014 serpentinisation of iron-rich ultramafic rocks + fault-zone accumulation over geological time<\/li>\n <li><strong>Economic assessment<\/strong> \u2014 5,000\u201350,000 tonnes estimated in reservoir \u00b7 too small for global-scale commercial exploitation \u00b7 but a world-class scientific demonstration<\/li>\n <li><strong>Safety history<\/strong> \u2014 three explosions since 1992 (2011 \u00b7 2017 \u00b7 2023) \u00b7 previously attributed to methane \u00b7 now confirmed as hydrogen<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <h2>Why This Discovery Matters Beyond Albania \u2014 <em>A Blueprint for Global Exploration<\/em><\/h2>\n\n <p>The Bulqiz\u00eb discovery is not primarily about Albania’s energy supply. The measured flow of 200 tonnes per year is negligible compared to global hydrogen production of 100 million tonnes annually. What makes it scientifically transformative is what it demonstrates about the <strong>global distribution and accessibility of natural hydrogen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n <p>The Albanian rocks are an ophiolite \u2014 a geological formation found on every continent. Ophiolites exist in France (Massif du Var), Morocco, Oman, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Canada and many other locations. The Bulqiz\u00eb study shows that ophiolites can contain <strong>real, measurable, accessible hydrogen reservoirs<\/strong> \u2014 not just traces. This provides a geological model that exploration geologists can apply worldwide.<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"pull-quote\">\n <p>These deposits have been ignored by the oil and gas industry for a very long time. This goes in the right direction.<\/p>\n <cite>Frieder Klein \u00b7 Geochemist \u00b7 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution \u00b7 Science, February 2024<\/cite>\n <\/div>\n\n <p>Michael Webber, an energy systems researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, noted that one key takeaway from the discovery is that hydrogen seems to be <strong>more ubiquitous than once imagined<\/strong>. This shift in scientific consensus \u2014 from “natural hydrogen is rare” to “natural hydrogen is widespread but underexplored” \u2014 is what the Bulqiz\u00eb paper fundamentally achieved.<\/p>\n\n <h2>The Connection to Lorraine \u2014 <em>Same Geology, Different Scale<\/em><\/h2>\n\n <p>The geological setting at Bulqiz\u00eb \u2014 iron-rich ophiolitic rocks, serpentinisation, fault-zone accumulation \u2014 shares important characteristics with the Hercynian basement rocks underlying the Lorraine basin in northeastern France. The REGALOR II programme, operated by Fran\u00e7aise de l’\u00c9nergie and based on the decade-long research of CNRS geochemists Jacques Pironon and Philippe De Donato, identified hydrogen concentrations rising from 1% at 600 metres to 17% at 1,100 metres \u2014 with the REGALOR II borehole at Pontpierre reaching 3,655 metres in October 2025.<\/p>\n\n <p>The Lorraine deposit \u2014 estimated at 92 million tonnes, roughly 400 times the estimated Bulqiz\u00eb reservoir \u2014 is the same geological phenomenon at a very different scale. If the Bulqiz\u00eb mine is the scientific proof of concept, Lorraine is the commercial-scale test. REGALOR II results are expected in 2027.<\/p>\n\n <h2>Why hydrogen.al \u2014 <em>The Albanian Connection Is Not an Accident<\/em><\/h2>\n\n <p>This domain \u2014 hydrogen.al \u2014 is registered under Albania’s country code top-level domain (.al). For the majority of internet users, .al means Albania. For chemists and engineers, it reads as H + Al \u2014 hydrogen and aluminium. The Bulqiz\u00eb discovery adds a third reading: <strong>hydrogen.al as a direct reference to the place where the world’s largest natural hydrogen flow was measured<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n <p>Three valid interpretations of the same eight-character domain. That convergence \u2014 geographical, chemical and geological \u2014 is what makes it genuinely unique.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"article-tags\">\n <span class=\"tag\">Natural Hydrogen<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Albania<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Bulqiz\u00eb Mine<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Ophiolite<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Serpentinisation<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Science Journal<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Laurent Truche<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">CNRS<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Lorraine<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">REGALOR II<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Geological Hydrogen<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">hydrogen.al<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"sources\">\n <div class=\"sources-title\">Sources \u2014 All Primary<\/div>\n <ul>\n <li>\u2192 Truche L. et al. \u2014 “A deep reservoir for hydrogen drives intense degassing in the Bulqiz\u00eb ophiolite” \u2014 Science, vol. 383, no. 6683, p. 618\u2013621 \u2014 February 8, 2024 \u2014 DOI: 10.1126\/science.adk9099<\/li>\n <li>\u2192 Universit\u00e9 Grenoble Alpes \u2014 “Discovery of a large hydrogen reservoir in an underground mine in Albania” \u2014 February 9, 2024<\/li>\n <li>\u2192 Science.org \u2014 “Gusher of gas deep in mine stokes interest in natural hydrogen” \u2014 February 8, 2024<\/li>\n <li>\u2192 Phys.org \u2014 “Largest flow of natural hydrogen gas ever found measured in Albanian chromium mine” \u2014 February 9, 2024<\/li>\n <li>\u2192 National Geographic \u2014 “This Albanian mine could help unlock the hydrogen economy” \u2014 March 7, 2024<\/li>\n <li>\u2192 PubMed \u2014 PMID 38330123 \u2014 Truche et al. \u2014 February 8, 2024<\/li>\n <li>\u2192 FDE \/ REGALOR II \u2014 Lorraine \u00b7 Pontpierre 3,655m \u2014 October 2025<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<footer>\n <div class=\"footer-logo\"><span class=\"h\">H<\/span> + <span class=\"al\">Al<\/span> = hydrogen.al<\/div>\n <div class=\"footer-links\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/naturalhydrogen.ai\">naturalhydrogen.ai<\/a>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/behydrogen.ai\">behydrogen.ai<\/a>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/h2white.ai\">h2white.ai<\/a>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/goldhydrogen.ai\">goldhydrogen.ai<\/a>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/syntheticfuels.ai\">syntheticfuels.ai<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"footer-copy\">\u00a9 2026 BESS Energie SRL \u00b7 BCE 0698.949.732 \u00b7 Heusy (Verviers), Belgium \u00b7 info@bess.be \u00b7 hydrogen.al<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n\n<\/body>\n<\/html>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albanian Discovery: The Largest Natural Hydrogen Flow Ever Measured | hydrogen.al H + Al = hydrogen.al Science \u00b7 Confirmed Discovery \u00b7 Albania The Albanian Discovery:The Largest Natural Hydrogen Flow Ever Measured \ud83d\udcc5 June 9, 2026 \u270d hydrogen.al \u23f1 6 min read \ud83d\udcd6 Source: Science, vol. 383, Feb 2024 In February 2024, a team of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science--global-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

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Measured<\/em><\/h1>\n <div class=\"hero-meta\">\n <span>\ud83d\udcc5 June 9, 2026<\/span>\n <span>\u270d hydrogen.al<\/span>\n <span>\u23f1 6 min read<\/span>\n <span>\ud83d\udcd6 Source: Science, vol. 383, Feb 2024<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"article-wrap\">\n\n <p class=\"article-lead\">In February 2024, a team of geochemists from the Universit\u00e9 Grenoble Alpes, CNRS and their Albanian colleagues published a landmark paper in Science \u2014 one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals. Beneath the Bulqiz\u00eb chromite mine in Albania, nearly one kilometre underground, they found a pool of water seething with hydrogen gas \u2014 described by those who witnessed it as a 30 m\u00b2 jacuzzi bubbling with almost pure H\u2082. The flow rate was measured at a minimum of 200 tonnes per year at 84% purity. It was the largest natural hydrogen flow rate ever recorded at that time. This discovery changed the way the scientific world thinks about geological hydrogen.<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"stats-row\">\n <div class=\"stat-card\">\n <span class=\"stat-n\">200 t<\/span>\n <span class=\"stat-l\">Minimum H\u2082 flow per year \u00b7 Bulqiz\u00eb mine \u00b7 confirmed in Science<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"stat-card\">\n <span class=\"stat-n\">84%<\/span>\n <span class=\"stat-l\">H\u2082 purity measured on-site \u00b7 rest methane and nitrogen<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"stat-card\">\n <span class=\"stat-n\">950 m<\/span>\n <span class=\"stat-l\">Depth of hydrogen pool in the mine galleries<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"stat-card\">\n <span class=\"stat-n\">2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"stat-l\">Publication date \u00b7 Science vol. 383 \u00b7 February 8<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"article-body\">\n\n <h2>The Mine \u2014 <em>A Chromium Deposit That Hid a Hydrogen Secret<\/em><\/h2>\n\n <p>The Bulqiz\u00eb mine, located approximately 40 kilometres northeast of Tirana, is one of the world’s largest chromium mines and one of Albania’s most important industrial assets. Since 2001, it has been owned by Empire Mining Corporation of Canada. It cuts deep into an ancient geological formation called an ophiolite \u2014 a fragment of Jurassic oceanic crust that was thrust onto the continental shelf millions of years ago when Africa collided with Europe and closed an ancient sea.<\/p>\n\n <p>The mine has a troubled safety history. Since 1992, it has experienced at least three major explosions \u2014 in 2011, 2017, and 2023. For years, the cause was assumed to be methane, the gas typically associated with underground mining accidents. It was only when scientists gained access to the deepest galleries that the true culprit was identified: <strong>almost pure hydrogen gas<\/strong>, produced continuously by the geological reactions occurring in the iron-rich rocks surrounding the mine.<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"article-img\">\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1581094794329-c8112a89af12?w=1200&q=80&fit=crop\" alt=\"underground mine gallery rock geological formation hydrogen ophiolite Albania\">\n <div class=\"article-img-cap\">Deep underground mine gallery \u2014 similar to the conditions at Bulqiz\u00eb, where geologists accessed galleries at ~950m depth to measure hydrogen outgassing \u00b7 the 30 m\u00b2 pool described as a “jacuzzi bubbling with almost pure H\u2082” was located in a water drainage basin at this depth \u00b7 Photo: Unsplash<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <h2>The Science \u2014 <em>Why Ophiolites Produce Hydrogen<\/em><\/h2>\n\n <p>The geological explanation for Bulqiz\u00eb’s hydrogen is serpentinisation \u2014 the same process responsible for natural hydrogen production in Lorraine, the Canadian Shield, and South Australia. The ophiolitic rocks surrounding the mine are rich in iron-bearing minerals (olivine, pyroxene). When groundwater percolates into these rocks at elevated temperatures and pressures, it reacts with the iron, oxidising it and releasing hydrogen gas as a continuous byproduct. The Bulqiz\u00eb ophiolite is particularly well-suited to this process because it preserves a thick sequence of upper mantle rocks that have been in contact with groundwater for millions of years.<\/p>\n\n <p>What makes Bulqiz\u00eb exceptional is not the process itself \u2014 serpentinisation occurs in many places \u2014 but the <strong>presence of a fault zone acting as a natural reservoir<\/strong>. The researchers demonstrated through in-situ observations and numerical modelling that a deep, faulted reservoir rooted in the Jurassic ophiolite massif accumulates hydrogen produced over geological time and releases it progressively. The mine galleries have perforated this reservoir at several well-localised points, allowing scientists to measure the flow directly.<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"key-box\">\n <div class=\"key-box-title\">Bulqiz\u00eb Discovery \u2014 Key Scientific Facts<\/div>\n <ul>\n <li><strong>Study<\/strong> \u2014 Truche et al. \u2014 “A deep reservoir for hydrogen drives intense degassing in the Bulqiz\u00eb ophiolite” \u2014 Science, vol. 383, no. 6683, February 8, 2024<\/li>\n <li><strong>Authors<\/strong> \u2014 Laurent Truche, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric-Victor Donz\u00e9 (ISTerre, Univ. Grenoble Alpes \u00b7 CNRS) + Albanian colleagues (NANR-AKBN Tirana \u00b7 Polytechnic University of Tirana)<\/li>\n <li><strong>Measurement<\/strong> \u2014 84% H\u2082 by volume \u00b7 minimum 200 t\/year \u00b7 measured directly in mine galleries at ~950m depth<\/li>\n <li><strong>Reservoir<\/strong> \u2014 deep faulted zone in Jurassic ophiolite massif \u00b7 not just surface outgassing \u00b7 genuine subsurface accumulation<\/li>\n <li><strong>Formation mechanism<\/strong> \u2014 serpentinisation of iron-rich ultramafic rocks + fault-zone accumulation over geological time<\/li>\n <li><strong>Economic assessment<\/strong> \u2014 5,000\u201350,000 tonnes estimated in reservoir \u00b7 too small for global-scale commercial exploitation \u00b7 but a world-class scientific demonstration<\/li>\n <li><strong>Safety history<\/strong> \u2014 three explosions since 1992 (2011 \u00b7 2017 \u00b7 2023) \u00b7 previously attributed to methane \u00b7 now confirmed as hydrogen<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <h2>Why This Discovery Matters Beyond Albania \u2014 <em>A Blueprint for Global Exploration<\/em><\/h2>\n\n <p>The Bulqiz\u00eb discovery is not primarily about Albania’s energy supply. The measured flow of 200 tonnes per year is negligible compared to global hydrogen production of 100 million tonnes annually. What makes it scientifically transformative is what it demonstrates about the <strong>global distribution and accessibility of natural hydrogen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n <p>The Albanian rocks are an ophiolite \u2014 a geological formation found on every continent. Ophiolites exist in France (Massif du Var), Morocco, Oman, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Canada and many other locations. The Bulqiz\u00eb study shows that ophiolites can contain <strong>real, measurable, accessible hydrogen reservoirs<\/strong> \u2014 not just traces. This provides a geological model that exploration geologists can apply worldwide.<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"pull-quote\">\n <p>These deposits have been ignored by the oil and gas industry for a very long time. This goes in the right direction.<\/p>\n <cite>Frieder Klein \u00b7 Geochemist \u00b7 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution \u00b7 Science, February 2024<\/cite>\n <\/div>\n\n <p>Michael Webber, an energy systems researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, noted that one key takeaway from the discovery is that hydrogen seems to be <strong>more ubiquitous than once imagined<\/strong>. This shift in scientific consensus \u2014 from “natural hydrogen is rare” to “natural hydrogen is widespread but underexplored” \u2014 is what the Bulqiz\u00eb paper fundamentally achieved.<\/p>\n\n <h2>The Connection to Lorraine \u2014 <em>Same Geology, Different Scale<\/em><\/h2>\n\n <p>The geological setting at Bulqiz\u00eb \u2014 iron-rich ophiolitic rocks, serpentinisation, fault-zone accumulation \u2014 shares important characteristics with the Hercynian basement rocks underlying the Lorraine basin in northeastern France. The REGALOR II programme, operated by Fran\u00e7aise de l’\u00c9nergie and based on the decade-long research of CNRS geochemists Jacques Pironon and Philippe De Donato, identified hydrogen concentrations rising from 1% at 600 metres to 17% at 1,100 metres \u2014 with the REGALOR II borehole at Pontpierre reaching 3,655 metres in October 2025.<\/p>\n\n <p>The Lorraine deposit \u2014 estimated at 92 million tonnes, roughly 400 times the estimated Bulqiz\u00eb reservoir \u2014 is the same geological phenomenon at a very different scale. If the Bulqiz\u00eb mine is the scientific proof of concept, Lorraine is the commercial-scale test. REGALOR II results are expected in 2027.<\/p>\n\n <h2>Why hydrogen.al \u2014 <em>The Albanian Connection Is Not an Accident<\/em><\/h2>\n\n <p>This domain \u2014 hydrogen.al \u2014 is registered under Albania’s country code top-level domain (.al). For the majority of internet users, .al means Albania. For chemists and engineers, it reads as H + Al \u2014 hydrogen and aluminium. The Bulqiz\u00eb discovery adds a third reading: <strong>hydrogen.al as a direct reference to the place where the world’s largest natural hydrogen flow was measured<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n <p>Three valid interpretations of the same eight-character domain. That convergence \u2014 geographical, chemical and geological \u2014 is what makes it genuinely unique.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"article-tags\">\n <span class=\"tag\">Natural Hydrogen<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Albania<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Bulqiz\u00eb Mine<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Ophiolite<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Serpentinisation<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Science Journal<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Laurent Truche<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">CNRS<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Lorraine<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">REGALOR II<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">Geological Hydrogen<\/span>\n <span class=\"tag\">hydrogen.al<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"sources\">\n <div class=\"sources-title\">Sources \u2014 All Primary<\/div>\n <ul>\n <li>\u2192 Truche L. et al. \u2014 “A deep reservoir for hydrogen drives intense degassing in the Bulqiz\u00eb ophiolite” \u2014 Science, vol. 383, no. 6683, p. 618\u2013621 \u2014 February 8, 2024 \u2014 DOI: 10.1126\/science.adk9099<\/li>\n <li>\u2192 Universit\u00e9 Grenoble Alpes \u2014 “Discovery of a large hydrogen reservoir in an underground mine in Albania” \u2014 February 9, 2024<\/li>\n <li>\u2192 Science.org \u2014 “Gusher of gas deep in mine stokes interest in natural hydrogen” \u2014 February 8, 2024<\/li>\n <li>\u2192 Phys.org \u2014 “Largest flow of natural hydrogen gas ever found measured in Albanian chromium mine” \u2014 February 9, 2024<\/li>\n <li>\u2192 National Geographic \u2014 “This Albanian mine could help unlock the hydrogen economy” \u2014 March 7, 2024<\/li>\n <li>\u2192 PubMed \u2014 PMID 38330123 \u2014 Truche et al. \u2014 February 8, 2024<\/li>\n <li>\u2192 FDE \/ REGALOR II \u2014 Lorraine \u00b7 Pontpierre 3,655m \u2014 October 2025<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<footer>\n <div class=\"footer-logo\"><span class=\"h\">H<\/span> + <span class=\"al\">Al<\/span> = hydrogen.al<\/div>\n <div class=\"footer-links\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/naturalhydrogen.ai\">naturalhydrogen.ai<\/a>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/behydrogen.ai\">behydrogen.ai<\/a>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/h2white.ai\">h2white.ai<\/a>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/goldhydrogen.ai\">goldhydrogen.ai<\/a>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/syntheticfuels.ai\">syntheticfuels.ai<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"footer-copy\">\u00a9 2026 BESS Energie SRL \u00b7 BCE 0698.949.732 \u00b7 Heusy (Verviers), Belgium \u00b7 info@bess.be \u00b7 hydrogen.al<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n\n<\/body>\n<\/html>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albanian Discovery: The Largest Natural Hydrogen Flow Ever Measured | hydrogen.al H + Al = hydrogen.al Science \u00b7 Confirmed Discovery \u00b7 Albania The Albanian Discovery:The Largest Natural Hydrogen Flow Ever Measured \ud83d\udcc5 June 9, 2026 \u270d hydrogen.al \u23f1 6 min read \ud83d\udcd6 Source: Science, vol. 383, Feb 2024 In February 2024, a team of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science--global-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydrogen.al\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}