New Gas

Exploring deep-seated hydrogen fluxes in Nova Scotia

QIMC’s hydrogen exploration campaign focuses on the Cobequid-Chedabucto fault system in Nova Scotia, a crustal-scale fault zone approximately 250 km long and 25 km wide that separates two ancient tectonic landmasses: The Avalon Terrane to the north and the Meguma…

Is helium the bonus or the business?

Gold Hydrogen started exploration on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia on the back of a legacy hydrocarbon well. They had a clear lead on hydrogen, but they also found exceptionally high helium concentrations. An independent commercial assessment now indicates…

Revival of South Africa’s first commercial Helium project

These observations prompt­ed Renergen to apply for a natural gas exploration per­mit across Welkom, Virgin­ia and Theunissen in Free State, South Africa. They soon discov­ered that apart from methane, the gas also contained high concentrations of helium, an opportunity that…

Deep hydrogen in Lorraine: An appraisal well or a science project?

Following the discovery in 2023 of hydrogen in Folschviller-1A, a coalbed methane test-well analysed by La Française de l’Energie (FDE), Lorraine’s hydrogen potential made headlines again in March this year with the drilling by FDE of a dedicated and much…

A helium prospect without a trap

After the initial hype of helium exploration in the Rukwa basin in Tanzania, things went quiet for 18 months. This is partially because Helium One’s exploration permit expired, and they had to apply and wait for a mining li­cence for…

Until now, hydrogen exploration wells were drilled half-blind

There is often an element of coincidence associated with how companies form. That also applies to how Vi­acheslav Zgonnik and Jona­than Allard from French tech start-up HyReveal came together two years ago. While Viacheslav was drilling the first dedicated hydrogen…

Western Pyrenees foothills – the hotspot for natural hydrogen

The growing interest in hydrogen within the con­text of the energy transition has recently led to renewed scientific attention, resulting in the identification of numerous natural occurrences across a wide range of geological settings. Academic studies have signifi­cantly improved the…

Too early to declare a commercial success

Australia’s Gold Hydrogen was one of the earliest movers in the hunt for natural hydrogen: taking up acreage in South Australia, raising funds and drilling a number of exploration wells. Its two earliest wells, Ramsay-1 and -2 drilled in late…

Omani research well burping hydrogen

Professor Alexis Templeton in conversation at the 2025 H-NAT Summit. Photo: H-NAT Summit. When Professor Alexis Temple­ton from the University of Colorado con­ducted a techno-economic analysis on stimulated hydrogen, the results suggested that generating profitable volumes of gas is nearly…

Time to recycle party balloons

A third of the world’s helium comes from Qatar, a lucrative by-product of natural gas production. Even though the North Field contains only 0.04 % helium, the vast volumes of hydrocarbon production result in Qatar being the second largest helium…

Finding hydrogen is not the problem; producing it is…

The natural hydrogen com­munity is coming to the realisation that finding large free gas, hydrogen reservoirs might be rare, or might not be on the cards at all. Dr. Jürgen Grötsch, CEO at Tellus Energy Solutions. Instead, consensus is growing…

Canada’s first hydrogen exploration well

In certain coal mines, it is already common practice to use vent­ed mine gas, predom­inantly methane, to power operations. The same principle can be ap­plied to ore mines where hydrogen makes up a good proportion of the mine gas. Mining…