b'Seismic window Figure 3.Cross section across the structure showing Kingfish 1, leaving a lot of volume up dip to the west. The location of this line is shown on Figure 2.fuel for transport and shipping. Otherexperienced hands and, dare I say, the papers suggest hydrogen will have anfuture of the energy business for the important role with interest growingyounger generations. Table 1 illustrates rapidly in recent years. But how do youmy take on conference trends.store hydrogen in sufficient quantities? Apparently the best places are in saltHappy birthday Kingfishcavities, but in Australia these are poorly placed relative to generation or transportKingfish, the billion barrel oil field in facilities. Underground storage inthe Gippsland Basin was 55 years old in depleted gas fields is being reviewed, butJune. The discovery well, Kingfish1, was its not as easy it seems. Apparently therespudded on April 6 1967 and plugged are issues with contamination by residualand abandoned on June 15 after reaching gas and geochemical reactions. a total depth of 8451 feet (2575 m). The Another novel paper suggests smoothingwell has 270 feet (82.3 m) of structural the intermittent delivery of renewablerelief above the oil-water contact (OWC) resources by storing energy asand a mapped closure of 28 square miles compressed air for use in times of under- (74.5 km2).productivity. But the presentation thatKingfish is Australias largest oil caught my eye was storage of hydrogenproducer with over a billion barrels in date palm leavesa natural alternativerecovered to date. Figure 1 shows to carbon nanotubes. the simple structure mapped in 1967 APPEA 2022 has something forbased on a handful of 2D seismic lines everyonegood classical casecompared to the more detailed 1973 histories and geological papers for themap (Figure 2).39 PREVIEW JUNE 2022'