Publications
Hidden Hydrogen - Does Earth hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel? - Science Magazine February 2023
Natural hydrogen in the Monzon-1 well, Ebro basin, northern Spain - Article by Christopher Atkinson, Christopher Matchette-Downes and Sandra Garcia-Curiel
Natural Hydrogen in the Monzón-1 well, Ebro Basin, Northern Spain - A Webinar Presentation to the European Federation of Geologists February 2, 2023
The hydrogen system of Europe’s first natural hydrogen project - Helios Aragon - AAPG - December 2022
Un inversor proyecta extraer del subsuelo de Huesca hidrógeno puro - elperiodico de Aragon newspaper article December 2022
Natural hydrogen: a new source of carbon-free and renewable energy that can compete with hydrocarbons - Firstbreak publication October 2022
Interest in white hydrogen grows - Von Linda Osusky, Energie & Klima
What Pulsating H2 Emissions Suggest about the H2 Resource in the Sao Francisco Basin of Brazil - Lawrence Cathles and Alain Prinzhofer, Geosciences, April 2020
Natural H2 in Kansas: Deep or shallow origin? - Geochem Geophys Geosyst - 2017
Natural hydrogen in the Monzon-1 well, Ebro basin, northern Spain - Christopher Atkinson, Christopher Matchette-Downes and Sandra Garcia-Curiel
In March 1963 the Monzon-1 well was drilled in the Ebro basin (Spain), in the foreland of the southern slope of the Pyrenean chain. It reached the depth of 3,715 m without commercial success but encountered gas indices in the bunter (Triassic) sandstone series. The end-of-survey report mentions two intervals with TG indices up to 25% and indicates pure hydrogen. The investigations into the measuring devices of the time show that it can be said with good confidence that the gas measured was indeed pure hydrogen. Starting from this hypothesis the source of this hydrogen must be sought along the major crustal accidents of the chain as demonstrated on the north-Pyrenean front. This rediscovery of hydrogen data on an old well revives hopes for the prospection of a gold hydrogen. More ...
