Chapter 1 - Introduction

01-01 - Introduction (3 min.) Sample Lesson

Chapter 2 - Helium

02-01 - Introduction To Helium (8 min.) Quiz: 02-01 - Introduction To Helium
02-02 - Helium Markets (7 min.) Quiz: 02-02 - Helium Markets
02-03 - Helium Exploration in Sedimentary Basins (11 min.) Quiz: 02-03 - Helium Exploration in Sedimentary Basins
02-04 - Helium Extraction & Processing (6 min.) Quiz: 02-04 - Helium Extraction & Processing
02-05 - Helium Players & Developments (6 min.) Quiz: 02-05 - Helium Players & Developments
02-06 - "Small" Helium with Hydrocarbons (12 min.) Quiz: 02-06 - "Small" Helium with Hydrocarbons
02-07 - "Green" Helium (12 min.) Quiz: 02-07 - "Green" Helium
02-08 - Helium from LNG (7 min.) Quiz: 02-08 - Helium from LNG
02-09 - Unconventional Helium (8 min.) Quiz: 02-09 - Unconventional Helium
02-10 - Helium Summary (5 min.)

Chapter 3 - Geologic Hydrogen - Fuel of the Future?

03-01 - Introduction to Geologic Hydrogen (5 min.) Quiz: 03-01 - Introduction to Geologic Hydrogen
03-02 - Geologic Hydrogen Exploration (18 min.) Quiz: 03-02 - Geologic Hydrogen Exploration
03-03 - Geologic Hydrogen Summary (5 min.)

Helium & Hydrogen – Exploring for Critical Commodities / Chapter 1 - Introduction

Lesson 01-01 - Introduction

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01. Lesson 1.01: Introduction 02. Petrel Robertson Consulting Ltd.03. Course Outline

01. Lesson 1.01: Introduction

Welcome to Helium and Hydrogen - Exploring for Critical Commodities. My name is Brad Hayes. I'm president of Petrel Robertson Consulting Limited, and I want to introduce you to the critical commodities helium and hydrogen and talk about how we explore for and develop them in today's geopolitically charged environment.

02. Petrel Robertson Consulting Ltd.

Petrel Robertson Consulting has evolved from a 20th century geoscience consultancy serving the oil and gas industry, to a modern, integrated consulting firm, working on subsurface resources ranging from traditional and unconventional oil and gas to exploration for helium and lithium brines to geothermal energy and CO₂ sequestration.
I'm a geologist, I hold a PhD from the University of Alberta, where I'm now engaged is an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. I also served for 4 years as a sessional instructor in petroleum geology at Mount Royal University and have taught geology-based short courses for industry clients and other organizations. I am going to build on some extensive experience in oil and gas exploration and development adopted in recent years to explore for other subsurface resources such as helium and lithium. I've been involved personally in co-founding two successful and publicly listed helium companies. And PRCL is currently supporting junior explorers in the hunt for new helium and hydrogen resources.

03. Course Outline

Today, we'll start with helium as a commodity, exploring its unique and generally high-tech applications. We'll talk about helium markets and how they are rapidly evolving in today's geopolitically risky world. Then, we'll dive into exploring for helium in a variety of geological and logistical settings, guided by consideration of helium systems, which closely parallel the petroleum systems concept that has guided the search for oil and gas over the past 100 years. Helium extraction and processing is critically important in determining whether helium resources can be economically produced. We'll find that there are a number of different cases depending on whether helium is produced on its own or if hydrocarbons are co-produced. Co-producing helium at liquefied natural gas facilities is an exciting development that has been important for only the past 15 years or so. With this fundamental knowledge in mind, we'll spend some time looking at helium players and developments around the globe. There's been an amazing amount of innovation with attendant successes and failures in a very fast-evolving story. The second part of the course on geological hydrogen is shorter because drilling for hydrogen is a relatively new idea and there just hasn't been as much action to date as for helium. We'll look at hydrogen's potential in theenergy economy of the 21st century and then talk about exploring for and producing hydrogen from the subsurface. Compared to helium, natural hydrogen is not well understood, so we'll summarize the topic with several fundamental questions.
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