New Gas

Fairy circles

Companies ex­ploring for natu­ral hydrogen are rapidly popping up everywhere, but how do the geologists decide where to start prospecting? Many of them look at historical data from “dry” hydrocar­bon…

Dry helium well supplies the beverage industry

The USA is by far the world’s largest geological CO2 producer, extracted from a small number of high – CO2 reservoirs. The vast majority of this CO2, 97 %, is…

Helium One’s bumpy road to success

First of all, the rig. During the initial exploration campaign that started in 2021, Helium One used a slimline mining rig. This is probably a contributing factor to a range…

The North American helium fairway

As always, news outlets concentrate on the handful of exploration companies trying to prove additional (helium) resources. For instance, Gold Hydrogen announced a record find of 17.5% helium in the…

Gold hydrogen – or Gold helium?

On Wednesday 22 May, Gold Hydrogen’s share price reached its highest level so far at 2.09 Australian dollars. A few days later, following the release of an ASX statement on…

The genesis of natural hydrogen exploration

HydroGenesis believe that natural hydrogen exists in large quantities in the subsurface, we just haven’t been looking in the right place. We are developing an exploration concept to pioneer this…

This is the time of subsurface by-products

Speaking to an Aberdeen audience about 10 years ago, Jon Gluyas argued that the North Sea oil business was in essence a water industry. Looking at volumes of produced water…