Deep Earth Energy Systems The Hydrogen System: Generation, Migration, Accumulation, and the Test for a Defensible Subsurface Resource, Book 4, (Paperback)

Natural hydrogen has moved from scientific curiosity to serious exploration target-but detecting hydrogen is not the same as proving a resource. <p>The Hydrogen System examines the complete subsurface hydrogen chain: generation, migration, phase behavior, trapping, leakage, biological and geochemical sinks, accumulation, recharge, sampling, well evidence, rate, pressure, mass balance, and persistence. </p><p>Preston Tucker, DBA reviews the major proposed generation mechanisms, including water-rock reactions such as serpentinization, radiolysis, ancient crustal processes, and deeper-source hypotheses. The book then follows hydrogen from source to pathway and asks what must happen before a geochemical occurrence becomes an accumulation that can be explored, tested, and produced. </p><p>Case studies include Bourakébougou, ophiolite systems, the Midcontinent, Australia, and deep-basin hydrogen. The emphasis is not on declaring a new energy boom, but on defining what the evidence actually supports. </p><p>The central rule is straightforward: the molecule is not the resource. A defensible hydrogen resource requires more than detection-it requires architecture, volume, recoverability, flow, persistence, and evidence strong enough to survive alternative explanations.<br></p>

• Deep Earth Energy Systems The Hydrogen System: Generation, Migration, Accumulation, and the Test for a Defensible Subsurface Resource, Book 4, (Paperback)
• Author: Preston Tucker Dba
• ISBN: 9798174959866
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-09-17
• Page Count: 106