Sedimentary basin resource potential - EFTF Showcase 2024

Geoscience Australia held the final Exploring for the Future online public Showcase during 13–16 August 2024, marking the conclusion of this remarkable 8-year program and celebrating its enduring legacy.

Since 2016, the $225m Exploring for the Future program has been gathering, analysing and providing precompetitive geoscience data, information and tools to help inform decision-making by government, community and industry on the sustainable development of Australia's mineral, energy and groundwater resources, supporting our transition to net zero by 2050.

The 2024 Showcase was a free online event, where geoscience experts shared the latest results from the program and highlighted its impacts, benefits and achievements.

Day 3 included a ‘National resource potential assessments’ theme, covering our latest research into hydrogen, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and green steel with an overview of the new Green Steel Economic Fairways tool and our work on national inventories of basins for energy and groundwater, mineral and mine waste potential.

00:00 - Exploring for the Future Introduction
7:19 - Australian Source Rock and Fluid Atlas - Accessible visions built on historical data archives - Dr Dianne Edwards
22:35 - CO2: Where can we put it and how much will it cost? - Claire Patterson
41:26 - National aquifer framework: Putting the geology into hydrogeology - Dr Nadege Rollet
1:05:20 - Q&A Session

Links to other Day 3 sessions:
Session 1 –    • Hydrogen opportunities across Austral...  
Session 3 –    • Towards a national inventory of resou...  

The 2024 Showcase program and slides can be found at:
Day 1: https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/149746
Day 2: https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/149747
Day 3: https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/149748
Day 4: https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/149749