A little light reading before bedtime...1 Feb 2024 11:27
Strangely, in all of the journals and scientific papers I have been perusing I haven't found one incidence of Hydrogen and Helium being discovered together. Nitrogen, Argon ,Neon and Carbon Dioxide, along with other inert gases, but not Hydrogen. So if correctly identified, Helium (as an inert gas) would act as a counterbalance to the naturally explosive qualities of Hydrogen, so would this be an rare occurrence, because that would surely make this discovery worth even more.
Not to say it never happens but finding such discoveries that have been documented has, so far, eluded me.....
"The Tanzanian section of the East African Rift System (EARS) is an exemplar region where all of the characteristics for development of a helium resource are met. In this sense, Tanzania represents a unique opportunity to develop a ‘play fairway’ approach for helium exploration. A play fairway is defined as the area occupied by a suitable reservoir rock for helium with an associated overlying seal horizon with access to migrated helium from its mature source rock. Within the area occupied by the play fairway one would expect to find prospects, configurations of seal and reservoir rock that could trap helium and other buoyant gases.
In the region of the Rukwa Basin two exploration wells, Tai 1 and Tai 2, completed August 2021 have proved the presence of seal and reservoir horizons with the reservoirs containing significant helium shows. Independent prospective resource estimates undertaken on behalf of the operator and their financial backers suggest that there is a P50 (best estimate) of 138 BCF 4He potentially trapped within existing trapping structure, which, if recoverable, would alone supply the current world consumption for 14 years."
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