Investor Presentaiton
OFFICIAL
Why South Australia?
Zgonnik (2020) First drew attention to natural hydrogen indications in
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Earth-Science Reviews 203 (2020) 103140
1. DEM's online records revealed significant
hydrogen contents from Government analyses of
gas samples taken from three historic drillholes
(Zgonnik 2020):
1915 Robe 1 (25.4% hydrogen)
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1921 - American Beach Oil 1 (64.4-80% hydrogen)
1931 - Ramsay Oil Bore 1 (51.3-84% hydrogen)
2. Salt lakes on Yorke Peninsula and Kangaroo
Island were postulated to be ‘fairy circles' caused by
hydrogen seeps (e.g. Moretti et al., 2021).
3. Natural hydrogen exploration become possible in
in SA in February 2021 when changes to the
Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Regulations
2013 added hydrogen as a 'regulated substance'.
joining petroleum, CO2, H2S, He, N and substances
produced with petroleum.
Moretti et al. (March 2021) drew
attention to potential 'fairy circles'
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Figure 5. Location of the areas with many circular depressions in Australia (red areas). The yel-
low stars are the location of the wells that found H2, the yellow circles highlight the areas where
depressions that look like fairy circles can be observed and where statistic has been done in this study.View entire presentation