{"title":"Natural Hydrogen and Helium Gas Exploration in the Amadeus Basin","authors":"Lance Holmes, S. Menpes, M. Densley","doi":"10.36404/ykii5583","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"As the world transitions to a low carbon future and global helium consumption grows, the Amadeus Basin is emerging as a prime location for high helium and natural hydrogen gas exploration. With a regionally extensive evaporite seal, and significant hydrogen and helium identified in sub-evaporite gases, the Amadeus Basin has potential to be one of the world’s premier provinces for naturally occurring hydrogen and helium production. Gas compositions from the Mt Kitty 1 well indicate >11% hydrogen and 9% helium (very high concentrations by global standards), with 6% helium also encountered in the Magee 1 well.","PeriodicalId":330957,"journal":{"name":"Central Australian Basins Symposium IV - Exploring Australia’s Resource Frontier","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Central Australian Basins Symposium IV - Exploring Australia’s Resource Frontier","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.36404/ykii5583","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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As the world transitions to a low carbon future and global helium consumption grows, the Amadeus Basin is emerging as a prime location for high helium and natural hydrogen gas exploration. With a regionally extensive evaporite seal, and significant hydrogen and helium identified in sub-evaporite gases, the Amadeus Basin has potential to be one of the world’s premier provinces for naturally occurring hydrogen and helium production. Gas compositions from the Mt Kitty 1 well indicate >11% hydrogen and 9% helium (very high concentrations by global standards), with 6% helium also encountered in the Magee 1 well.