Gold Hydrogen - a natural solution

As Australia and the rest of the world search for the cheapest and cleanest-to-produce fuel to achieve net zero emissions targets, natural hydrogen is poised to make a significant contribution.

Typically, there have been two ways of making hydrogen which are known as ‘blue’ and ‘green’ hydrogen. Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas and green from electrolyzing water with renewable energy – both processes are energy intense and presently very expensive.

Attention is now turning to natural hydrogen resources beneath the earth’s surface. Naturally-occurring ‘gold’ hydrogen could sidestep the need for the industrial processes currently required for manufacturing hydrogen. South Australia is one of the few places in the world where geological conditions are believed conducive to natural hydrogen production, with reserves independently and conservatively assessed at 1.3-billion kilograms. SA’s certified resources are potentially the largest in the world – larger than identified resources in Mali, Brazil, Kansas, Qatar and other places.

H/Avisors APA is working with Australian owned and operated resource company Gold Hydrogen Pty Ltd, which has Australia’s first issued hydrogen exploration permit on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula and Kangaroo Island. We are helping to tell the story to government, local communities, investors and the wider public.

The appraisal and prospective development of SA’s hydrogen resources would only go ahead after extensive landholder and community consultation and rigorous environmental approval processes. H/Advisors APA is working with Gold Hydrogen to achieve that.