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South Australia

H2EX Secures Australian Government Funding

The Australian Government has awarded H2EX a grant of $863,000 to Accelerate Exploration and Extraction of Renewable Natural Hydrogen.
Together with our research partners: University of Adelaide, Australian National University and Black & Veatch, we will undertake a project to enable green and passive exploration techniques to accelerate the discovery of natural hydrogen. The research into extraction solutions will provide a clear pathway to drill and extract the lowest cost hydrogen, which is expected to be up to 75% cheaper than manufacturing hydrogen.
The Project, completed in August 2025, will unlock important first-mover benefits for Australia within an emerging sector globally.
Thank you to the CRC-P Program for award of this grant.

Developed a Portfolio of Exploration Leads

H2EX has acquired new subsurface data covering 40% of PEL 691, focusing on the northern part of the license. This includes magnetotellurics, passive seismic and gas soil sampling data across 8 surveys in 2023-24. Fluid inclusion analysis of historical drill core found the first detections of subsurface hydrogen in the Eyre Peninsula in 2025.

H2EX has coalesced this information to develop a portfolio of natural hydrogen targets. Click here to see our top 12 drillable targets.
 
In addition to PEL 691, H2EX has six first-ranked license applications totalling 52,000km2. These will proceed through the Native Title negotiation process prior to license award.

H2EX’s South Australian acreage has been strategically selected to test various natural hydrogen play-type theories.

We plan to explore for natural hydrogen via a range of activities including:
Geological modelling
Gas surface sampling
Seismic
Develop a portfolio of leads and prospects

H2EX and CSIRO Execute Several Research Agreements

H2EX has leveraged the expertise of CSIRO, Australia’s National Science Agency. The studies found that:
  • The desktop and field studies of PEL 691 highlight significant evidence for hydrogen seepage (Dec-22); and
  • The soil sampling field survey concluded that high-confidence hydrogen seeps occur on the Eyre Peninsula and these seeps correlate with heat maps calculated by the desktop study (May-23); and
  • Fluid inclusion analysis of 23 (of a total of 30) historical drill core samples found detections of hydrogen. The first known subsurface detections of hydrogen in the Eyre Peninsula
The first two of these projects were made possible via the CSIRO Kick-Start program.

H2EX is also an industry sponsor of the CSIRO iPhD program, alongside the University of Western Australia.