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Exploring for the Future: Molecular and Isotopic Compositions of Natural Gases from Canunda 2 and Ralgnal 1, Cooper Basin, Australia

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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The Australian Government’s $225 million Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program is committed to supporting a strong economy, resilient society and sustainable environment for the benefit of Australians (https://www.ga.gov.au/eftf). At its heart, the program is about stimulating industry now to ensure a sustainable, long-term future for Australia through an improved understanding of the nation’s minerals, energy and groundwater resource potential. By gathering and analysing geological and geophysical data and making the results publicly available, the program supports regional development and informed decision making across Australia, resulting in jobs and growth. The Energy component of this program is designed to produce pre-competitive information to assist with the evaluation of the hydrocarbon resource potential of onshore basins and attract exploration investment to Australia. As part of the EFTF Natural Hydrogen module, molecular and isotopic analyses were undertaken by Geoscience Australia on natural gas samples from the wells Canunda 2 and Ralgnal 1 from the southwestern margin of the Patchawarra Trough in the Cooper Basin, with the raw data from these analyses being released in this report. Some data from these wells were included in the nationwide studies of helium and hydrogen, as published by Boreham et al. (2018; 2021), and build on previous studies that document the composition of Australian natural gases (Boreham et al., 2001). These data are available through the Geoscience Australia portal at https://portal.ga.gov.au/

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Title Exploring for the Future: Molecular and Isotopic Compositions of Natural Gases from Canunda 2 and Ralgnal 1, Cooper Basin, Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/5101dbbb-cdfe-427f-9dd0-1f35768899eb
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 11/10/2021 - 11/10/2023
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Exploring for the Future: Molecular and Isotopic Compositions of Natural Gases from Canunda 2 and Ralgnal 1, Cooper Basin, Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/exploring-for-the-future-molecular-and-isotopic-compositions-of-natural-gases-from-canunda-2-an