Browsing: Natural Hydrogen

RAG Austria AG has successfully stored approximately 500,000 cubic meters of hydrogen in a depleted sandstone gas reservoir in Gampern, Upper Austria. This demonstration, part of the Underground Sun Storage 2030 (USS 2030) project, confirms the technical feasibility of large-volume, seasonal hydrogen storage in porous geological formations.

With Alberta’s Premier touting hydrogen as the province’s “next trillion dollar industry,” energy watchers are turning their gaze to the largely untapped potential of natural hydrogen—and REV Exploration Corp. is moving quickly to stake a claim.

With global interest in natural (white) hydrogen gaining momentum, HyTerra is pushing forward with a 12-month exploration campaign in Kansas—one of the few active U.S. hydrogen plays—despite ongoing uncertainty around well testing standards and subsurface behavior.

In what could mark a significant development in the emerging field of geologic hydrogen, HyTerra Limited has reported preliminary findings from its first exploration well in Kansas indicating air-corrected hydrogen concentrations as high as 96.1%.

Japan is betting on underground natural hydrogen to bridge the cost gap in its decarbonization ambitions, as the country prepares…

QMET has recently signed an acquisition agreement for natural hydrogen exploration assets in Colchester, a strategic move that aligns with QIMC’s hydrogen initiatives in Nova Scotia.

The French Ministry for the Energy Transition has authorized two exclusive research permits (PER) for natural hydrogen exploration, marking a…

The global energy sector’s pivot toward natural hydrogen has intensified scrutiny of geological processes like deserpentinization, which could yield vast subsurface hydrogen reserves. A 2023 U.S. Geological Survey estimate suggests subsurface hydrogen deposits may exceed 1 trillion tons globally—a potential game-changer for clean energy transitions.

In the context of ongoing explorations in the Mid-West USA, HyTerra Limited has unveiled noteworthy data from the Hoarty NE3 well at the Geneva Project, Nebraska.

A safety presentation by Lennie Klebanoff of Sandia National Laboratories underscores the complexities of handling, storing, and transporting hydrogen safely—issues that demand urgent industry-wide attention.