Exploring Tasmania for Helium, geothermal & Nat H2
Devil Resources has licensed 12,000 sq km onshore Tasmania over a highly prospective area. The company is using cutting edge technology to search for these critical resources.
Tasmania is prospective for natural hydrogen and helium with it being underlain with generative iron rich Ultramafic rocks and Granite. Numerous wells in Tasmania have encountered elevated hydrogen and Helium in formation. Ultramafic rocks undergo serpentinisation at depth, where pressure-driven reaction with water generates hydrogen gas in the subsurface, which may then be trapped within reservoir rocks.
If Natural Hydrogen is found in the subsurface it can provide an almost zero carbon fuel source which is very much cheaper than green Hydrogen produced by electrolysis.
The company has one exploration license (EL5/2024) in the Tamar region and three areas under application, totaling 7,400 sq km.
Initial work the company has undertaken has defined a resource potential of 144 Million Kg Nat Hydrogen (in place) in a series of structural traps with EL5/2024.
A map of DRL's He & Nat H2 exploration license and application areas
A map of DRL's licenses underlaid by Ultramafic thrust sheets
Why Explore Tasmania for Nat H2?
•Source: presence of a thick sequence of ultramafic rocks in the sub-surface and/or radiolysis in granites, plus geothermal heat. All with the potential to generate hydrogen
•EL5/2024 underlaid by multiple ultramafic thrust sheets (see map)
•App. EL2/2026 underlaid by radioactive granites & UMTS
•Potential Natural Hydrogen souring from the mantle via the Tamar Fault Zone
•H2/He gas shows in stratigraphic wells in areas underlain by UMTS & radiogenic granites
•Proprietary Spectral Reflectance Survey demonstrates surface emanations of He & H2
•Presence of reservoir and top seal-Permian sediments & 800m thick Jurassic Dolerite