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Jemena is currently conducting a green the East Asian country’s coal-fired power
hydrogen trial in NSW at the Western Sydney generators.
Green Gas Project. The project will convert solar A relatively unknown company, H2X,
and wind power into hydrogen gas, which will announced plans last month to start building
then be stored for use in the company’s NSW gas hydrogen-fuelled hybrid electric vehicles (EVs)
network. The AUD15mn ($10.4mn) trial aims to in the Illawarra within the next two years.
power 250 homes and supply a hydrogen refuel- Commenting on the design on hybrid
ling station. hydrogen EVs, CSIRO senior research sci-
Jemena is one of a growing number of Aus- entist Christopher Munnings said: “You have
tralian firms exploring the potential of hydro- the option of either filling it up at a hydrogen
gen, with Woodside Petroleum announcing refuelling station like you would with a regular
on April 6 that it had teamed up with Japan’s hybrid or petrol vehicle, or you can also plug it
JERA, Marubeni and IHI to study large-scale into a wall socket at home and you can charge
hydrogen-as-ammonia exports for use by it to use it as an [EV].”
South Australia awards new
exploration licences
PROJECTS & THE South Australian government has awarded added: “The next step for the Cooper Basin
COMPANIES several new petroleum exploration licence appli- applicants will be to engage with native title
cations (PELAs) across the Otway and Cooper parties and the South Australian government to
Basins to six developers. develop access agreements.”
Leigh Creek Energy, Cordillo Energy, Gid- Leigh Creek was awarded blocks CO2019-A
gee Energy and Vintage Energy each won (PELA 675) and CO2019-B (PELA 676). Its five-
licence applications in the Cooper Basin, year work commitment includes acquiring 150
covering a combined 13,582 square km, while km of 2D seismic, 150 square km of 3D seismic
Beach Energy and Cooper Energy’s joint and drilling two wells on PEL 675, while also
venture won a 1,923-square km licence in acquiring 150 square km of 3D seismic and drill-
the Otway Basin. The companies have made ing three wells on PEL 676.
a combined work commitment of $58.85mn Cordillo parent Oilex said the company had
over the next five years. won Block CO2019-C (PELA 677), which lies
The applications require the companies to within and adjacent to the 27 petroleum reten-
secure appropriate land access agreements from tion licences (PRLs) in the Northern Oil and Gas
indigenous land owners before the SA Energy Fairway that it has secured the right to acquire
Ministry can issue petroleum exploration from Senex Energy. Oilex said its five-year com-
licences (PELs). mitment included acquiring 250 square km of
“South Australia aims to rebound quickly 3D seismic and drilling two wells.
from the pandemic-led slowdown, and petro- Vintage won Block CO2019-E (PEL 679)
leum exploration will be a significant contribu- with a commitment to acquire 100 square km of
tor to a sharp recovery,” SA Minister for Energy 3D seismic and drill two wells.
and Mining Dan van Holst Pellekaan said on Gidgee Energy was newly formed in Novem-
June 30. ber 2019, has no website and has made no official
Van Holst Pellekaan said the winners were announcement on its work programme.
picked based on the quality of their five-year Welcoming the newly issued PELAa, Aus-
work programmes, the adequacy of the compa- tralian Petroleum Production and Exploration
nies’ financial resources, technical expertise and Association (APPEA) chief executive Andrew
their ability to meet their commitments and sat- McConville said SA was doing its share to meet
isfactorily undertake the proposed work. Australia’s growing energy needs. He added: “It’s
“All of the blocks released last year offer a encouraging to see the oil and gas industry con-
diversity of play types and give the new licence tinuing to supply natural gas to domestic cus-
operators the opportunity to build a strong tomers, including manufacturers to help support
exploration portfolio,” the minister said. He local jobs and economic growth.”
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