Natural Hydrogen and Helium Gas Exploration in the Amadeus Basin

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.