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…
Australasia
Imagine – heating your house using gas produced by 1.3 billion-year-old blue-green algae
Compared to gas from the Beetaloo Basin, shale gas from the USA is just a teenager, with the age of the Pennsylvanian source rocks hovering around 350 million years. The…
Exploration of the Papuan Plateau: How revolutionary geophysical technology reveals new seismic insights
Searcher’s Papuan Plateau 2D seismic. Holding out for a hero: How evolving geophysical technology revolutionised a Frontier Basin A lot can change in twenty years. In 2004, the Nintendo DS…
Why political endorsement of the oil and gas industry won’t bring back the majors straight away
It is too easy to think that a policy reversal in favour of oil and gas exploration such as the one that was recently announced for New Zealand will immediately…
Integration of structural and stratigraphic data using automated workflows
Geoscientists rely on their pattern recognition ability every day, comparing already known sedimentary and structural fabrics with new ones when diving into new datasets. However, with the increase in size…
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…
Shallow geothermal in Australia – from “cold” Melbourne to “hot” Sydney
This is the second out of three articles in shallow geothermal series. In the first one, we focused our attention on Sweden, where 100% of geo-energy is produced by shallow…
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…
Four decades of rocks
“From when I was in primary school, I wanted to become a geologist”, says Amanda Barlow when I speak to her whilst she sits in her kitchen on the Gold…
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…
What pressure data can do
The ENE trending Rankin High is dissected by a series of sub-parallel Lower to Middle Jurassic basins, of which the Searipple Graben to the west of NW Rankin is an…
Two hydrogen exploration wells completed in Australia, but what to make of the results?
Gold Hydrogen Ltd. has drilled its first 2 wells on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. Both wells have encountered high concentrations of hydrogen as well as unexpected levels of…