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Cooper Basin region: Hydrogen potential package

The potential for hydrogen production in the Cooper Basin region is assessed to provide a joint information base for hydrogen generation potential from renewable energy, groundwater, and natural gas coupled with carbon capture and storage (CCS). Hydrogen generation requires water, whether using electrolysis with renewable energy or steam methane reforming (SMR) of gas with CCS. The data package includes the regional renewable energy capacity factor, aquifers and their properties (potential yield, salinity, and reserves or storativity), and geological storage potential of carbon dioxide (CO2). This data guide gives examples of how the compiled data can be used.

The renewable hydrogen potential is assessed based on renewable energy capacity factor and groundwater information (potential yield, salinity, and reserves or storativity). Three aquifers from overlying basins (Eromanga and Lake Eyre basins) are included in the assessment. The Cooper Basin region has high renewable hydrogen potential. The presence of good aquifer throughout the basin combined with high renewable energy capacity factor resulted in significant areas with high hydrogen potential.

The Cooper Basin has significant hydrocarbon resources, primarily for gas (Geoscience Australia, 2022). Although most known hydrocarbon resources have depleted since production began in the 1960s (Smith et al., 2015), a large amount of gas remains, including conventional gas (1,058 PJ reserves and 1,598 PJ resources) and unconventional basin-centred gas (2,265 PJ resources). An assessment in the overlying Eromanga Basin suggests that most areas over the Cooper Basin are prospective for potential CO2 geological storage (Bradshaw et al., 2023). Further work on identifying detailed gas potential is needed to assess hydrogen generation potential from SMR coupled with CCS.

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Date (Creation)
2023-07-01T09:00:00
Date (Publication)
2023-09-04T00:30:07
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147512

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/147512

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Author

Trusted Environmental and Geological Information Program

External Contact
Purpose

Delivery of trusted baseline data and information for geological basins prospective for energy, carbon capture and storage, groundwater and minerals as part of the Trusted Environmental and Geological Information program (TEGI).

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Point of contact

Woods, M.

MEG Internal Contact
Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

External Contact
Spatial representation type

Spatial resolution

Level of detail

Accuracy of the spatial data included in this package is dependant on the source datasets used to create it. Please refer to the individual metadata statements contained in this package for more information.

Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
  • EARTH SCIENCES

Keywords
  • Australia

Keywords
  • Cooper Basin

Keywords
  • Hydrogen

Keywords
  • Hydrogen potential

Keywords
  • TEGI

Keywords
  • Trusted environmental and geological information

Keywords
  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

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License
Use constraints
License
Other constraints

(c) Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2022

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Associated resource

Association Type
Operated on by
Title

Cooper Basin Region - Hydrogen Potential MapServer

Citation identifier
149567

Citation identifier
3426e97d-fd87-4f10-8cc6-f70e3ddb0cec

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/149567

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
Operated on by
Title

Cooper Basin Region - Hydrogen Potential WMS

Citation identifier
149568

Citation identifier
ad51d6c6-5ee2-4adc-a570-228a944606bb

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/149568

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice facsimile
OnLine resource

Download the Report (zip) [1.47 MB]

Download the Report (zip) [1.47 MB]

Distribution format
  • zip

    File decompression technique

    unzip

OnLine resource

Download the ESRI File Geodatabase (zip) [3.59 MB]

Download the ESRI File Geodatabase (zip) [3.59 MB]

Distribution format
  • zip

    File decompression technique

    unzip

OnLine resource

Download the Shapefiles (zip) [5.30 MB]

Download the Shapefiles (zip) [5.30 MB]

Distribution format
  • zip

    File decompression technique

    unzip

OnLine resource

Cooper Basin Region - Hydrogen Potential MapServer

Cooper Basin Region - Hydrogen Potential MapServer

Distribution format
  • ESRI:ArcGIS:MapServer

OnLine resource

Cooper Basin Region - Hydrogen Potential WMS

Cooper Basin Region - Hydrogen Potential WMS

Distribution format
  • OGC:WMS

Resource lineage

Statement

This package has been developed as part of the the Trusted Environmental and Geological Information program (TEGI), and is providing better and more streamlined access to information and data for geological basins prospective for energy, carbon capture and storage, groundwater and minerals.

The program has identified and collated trusted baseline data and information for four prospective basin regions and supplement it with new geological and environmental assessments. This information will provide Australian governments, industry and communities with the highest-quality trusted science available to make faster, clearer decisions and provide better outcomes for the environment and water resources.

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/176571bf-2c28-48ba-9b06-e0aa1279e1c7

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Owner

Woods, M

Geoscience Australia Internal Contact
Point of contact

Woods, M.

MEG Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

Report

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/147512

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5167d912-6784-4371-9938-3931e84ca6f1

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/176571bf-2c28-48ba-9b06-e0aa1279e1c7

Date info (Creation)
2019-04-08T01:55:29
Date info (Revision)
2019-04-08T01:55:29

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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Keywords

Australia Cooper Basin Hydrogen Hydrogen potential TEGI Trusted environmental and geological information
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES

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