The quest for natural hydrogen is gathering momentum. Hydrogen exploration is currently active in Africa, South America, Australia, USA, France and Spain and a discovery of ‘free’ (gas-phase) hydrogen has been put into production in the Taoudeni Basin of Southern Mali (Prinzhofer et al. 2018). Although legislation is lagging behind, if significant volumes of gas-phase natural hydrogen can be proven in subsurface accumulations, it would naturally become the ‘green’ successor to petroleum and represent an exciting new frontier for exploration geoscience.
This conference will address how geoscience can be applied to the exploration for Natural Hydrogen and will focus on developing the geological understanding and application towards exploiting Natural hydrogen.