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…
New Gas
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…
Natural hydrogen – as you may not have seen it before
The “mainstream” hydrogen community in the West leans towards multiple physical and chemical processes that lead to the formation of hydrogen in the crust, such as serpentinization, ferrolysis, nuclear decay…
How the threat of military conflict created a successful helium storage project
Storing non-hydrocarbon gas in depleted oil and gas fields is a hot topic, whether it is permanent storage of CO2 or temporary storage of H2 produced by excess wind energy.…
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…
Hydrogen storage in a depleted gas reservoir – how easy is that?
“When Rough was under natural gas production and later as a gas storage facility, the geology was not considered to be particularly important ”, said Katharine Howell from Exceed during…
Acquiring seismic data for oil exploration in 1980, but using it to find hydrogen now
“A great talk!” I looked at the notes I took during Brian Evans’ talk at the AAPG ICE Conference in Madrid in November last year. It was a great talk…
Helium – the birth of a new exploration industry
Multiple dedicated helium discoveries have recently been made, but reserves have yet to be proven
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…