RE: Next steps.10 Feb 2024 18:49
It's good that folk are discussing commerciality and next steps, rather than taking it as a given. The interview with LB posted earlier was interesting, especially the concluding remarks attributed to her:
"LB: It's still early days, but we're focused on fully evaluating the data and understanding how these gases behave. Our aim is to appraise and eventually commercialise the project, considering the global interest in helium and hydrogen as essential resources for various industries and clean energy solutions."
So appraisal is the next step, but what is the context for this appraisal drilling:
1) They already know they have a commercial discovery, and the appraisal will be simply to establish the size of it, and investigate the Hydrogen aspect as well as the Helium.
2) They can't be sure they have a commercial discovery of either gas, and (only) the appraisal will establish this.
It would be good to get some clarity on which of these scenarios applies here, as neither NHE or HE1 have been clear about this as yet.