Kazakhstan's first natural hydrogen exploration company
Hydrogen and helium the Earth is already making.
We find and de-risk natural hydrogen and helium: basin screening, field validation, probabilistic resource modelling. Three stages — each one a decision made on evidence rather than optimism.
What is natural hydrogen?
Water meets iron-rich rock deep underground. The reaction — serpentinization — releases hydrogen.
Uranium and thorium decay in old basement rock and add helium.
Faults carry both gases upward into traps beneath a seal. That is where we look.
Illustration by Geo-Green, not to scale.
The need
A hundred-million-tonne market, waiting for a clean source.
Global hydrogen demand passed 100 million tonnes for the first time in 2025, feeding oil refining, ammonia and methanol today — and steel, shipping and power tomorrow. Yet less than 1% is produced with low emissions; the rest comes from fossil fuels. Scenarios put clean hydrogen demand at 125–585 million tonnes a year by 2050, and whoever supplies it at the lowest cost and carbon intensity owns that curve. Natural hydrogen — generated by the Earth, not manufactured — could be the lowest-cost, lowest-carbon source, and it travels with helium, a gas that has repeatedly been in short supply.
Global hydrogen demand in 2025 — the first year above that mark
Share produced with low emissions today; the rest comes from fossil fuels
Growth in committed low-emissions production capacity by 2030
Clean hydrogen demand by 2050 across published scenarios
Figures: IEA, Global Hydrogen Review 2025; McKinsey, Global Energy Perspective (2050 demand range).
What we do
We find it, prove it, and size it.
Screen
Geology, geophysics and satellite AI narrow tens of thousands of square kilometres to a ranked list of targets.
Validate
Field soil-gas surveys and gas geochemistry confirm that hydrogen is there — and where it came from.
Quantify
Our in-house simulation turns the evidence into a P10 / P50 / P90 prospective-resource range you can act on.
Who it is for
Licence holders and explorers, energy and mining companies, and investors evaluating natural hydrogen and helium opportunities.
Also available stand-alone
Soil-gas survey campaigns · gas geochemistry · remote-sensing screening · simulation and resource modelling · field-team training. Each stage is commissioned independently.
Track record
Published field work, not promises.
Kempirsai massif, Kazakhstan
Soil-gas and multispectral remote-sensing survey for natural hydrogen, published in Scientific Reports.
Pricaspian Basin
Machine-learning prospectivity mapping from satellite data, published in Scientific Reports.
Italy and Australia
Hydrogen flux at Larderello and blended H₂ / He gases in the Amadeus Basin, in Chemical Geology and Marine & Petroleum Geology.
Tell us about the ground you are looking at.
Send us the area, the data you hold, and the decision you are trying to make. We will tell you honestly whether it is worth screening — and if it is not, we will say so before you spend anything.
Who we are
Kazakhstan's first natural hydrogen exploration company.
Geo-Green is a Kazakhstan-registered geoscience company dedicated to natural hydrogen and helium exploration, working at the point where current research meets commercial exploration decisions. We screen basins, validate anomalies in the field, and quantify resources — with calibrated instrumentation, in-house technology and a peer-reviewed methodology.
Our values
Energy from the Earth, without taking it from the landscape.
A soil-gas survey leaves behind footprints and flag pins — no pits, no felled ground, no water drawn from the river. Exploration this light is only possible because measurement, not excavation, does the work.
Sustainability
Exploration that leaves the landscape as we found it: measurement over excavation, clean primary energy as the goal.
Integrity
Transparent methods, stated uncertainties, and advice we would give if the next generation were checking our work — because, in the end, it is.
Innovation
In-house sensing, machine-learning screening and reservoir simulation — new tools, always anchored to peer-reviewed science and calibrated standards.
The hydrogen landscape
Industry is moving to hydrogen. The question is which kind.
Where hydrogen is used today
Oil refining
Ammonia & fertiliser
Methanol & chemicals
Food processing
Where it goes next
Transport & shipping
Power & storage
Industrial heat
Steel & cement
Four ways to make hydrogen. One is already made.
Grey
Reformed from natural gas, CO₂ vented. Nearly all of today's supply.
Blue
Reformed from gas with carbon capture; hinges on CCS cost and capture rates.
Green
Electrolysis on renewable power. Clean, but energy-intensive to make.
Natural (white)
Already made by the Earth — produced, not manufactured. The one we explore for.
What a kilogram of hydrogen costs to produce
Why Natural H₂ matters commercially
Natural hydrogen is generated by the Earth wherever ultramafic rock, water and the right temperatures coincide — there is no electrolyser to power and no gas to reform. A still-charging system may even replenish a trap on far shorter timescales than conventional gas; whether it does is one of the questions our surveys are built to answer.
Helium travels with it — same basement, same faults, same surveys — and helium already has a market. A combined target is commercially legible now, not in a decade.
The field is young: commercial production is limited to very few sites, so natural-hydrogen costs and volumes remain estimates until more accumulations are proven.
Figures: IEA, Global Hydrogen Review 2025; Rystad Energy (natural hydrogen cost and carbon intensity); peer-reviewed techno-economic studies, 2025.
The answer
The Earth already makes it — continuously, underground.
Natural hydrogen takes no energy to manufacture: the Earth makes it wherever water meets iron-rich rock. The question is whether an area can be screened, ranked and proven at a cost that justifies drilling.
Hydrogen · serpentinization
Simplified: ferrous iron (Fe²⁺) in olivine and pyroxene is oxidised to magnetite while water is reduced to H₂. In a real rock, e.g. fayalite: 3Fe₂SiO₄ + 2H₂O → 2Fe₃O₄ + 3SiO₂ + 2H₂.
Helium · radioactive decay
Alpha particles (⁴He nuclei) released by uranium and thorium decay in basement rock pick up electrons and become helium atoms, which dissolve in groundwater and rise along faults. Thorium: 232Th → 208Pb + 6 4He + 4β−.
Geological settings
We work where the reaction is plausible, not where the story is fashionable.
Four settings dominate the published record of natural hydrogen. Our methodology is calibrated against published field studies in each.
Ophiolite belts
Obducted oceanic mantle brought to shallow crustal levels. Peridotite dominated by lizardite and Fe-brucite, serpentinizing at temperatures low enough to sustain generation today.
Cratonic basement and rift systems
Iron-rich mafic intrusives beneath sedimentary cover, with the fault architecture to move gas upward and the stratigraphy to trap it.
Geothermal provinces
Active circulation and elevated gradients, where hydrogen flux can often be measured directly at surface manifestations rather than inferred.
Intracratonic basins
Settings where hydrogen occurs blended with methane and helium, and where the commercial case rests on the combined gas stream rather than hydrogen alone.
The method
Three stages. Each one narrows the ground and the risk.
Exploration is a filtering problem: tens of thousands of square kilometres in, a ranked list of drillable prospects out — discarding ground at every step on explicit criteria.
Basin screening and target generation
We establish whether a credible hydrogen system exists, then narrow it to mappable ground. Geology first: the ultramafic assemblages, their thermal history, the scale of water-rock interaction. Then the geophysics: magnetics for serpentinization fronts, gravity for basement architecture, heat flow for active generation. In parallel, machine-learning analysis of satellite data — vegetation, thermal infrared, iron-oxide ratios — flags the surface expression of seepage.
Field validation and gas characterisation
Field crews run systematic soil-gas surveys across the ranked targets, map the faults and fractures that control migration, and record where hydrogen — and helium — rise above background. Molecular and isotopic analysis then establishes origin — because a shallow biogenic signal and a deep serpentinization source imply very different futures for sustained flux.
Resource modelling and prospect ranking
Our in-house software turns geology and measured geochemistry into a model of the full chain — generation, migration, accumulation — and a P10 / P50 / P90 range of prospective resources for each prospect, re-run as new field data arrives. The output is a ranked portfolio that ends at a drilling decision; proving an accumulation takes test wells, beyond our three stages.
Each stage is commissioned independently. Clients commit capital as evidence accumulates, and we will recommend stopping as readily as advancing. Exploration spend stays proportionate to what the subsurface has actually shown.
The instruments
The numbers come from the ground.
A metre-deep probe, a calibrated analyzer, a position and a time — repeated thousands of times per survey. This is what a station looks like while it works.
Animated schematic of a single survey station.
From our field campaigns
Standard field instruments in use: gamma-ray spectrometry for uranium and thorium, the source of radiogenic helium, and a hydrogen analyzer at a soil-gas station.
Calibrated, industry-standard instrumentation
Every survey runs on the tools the field trusts worldwide: portable hydrogen analyzers calibrated against certified reference gases before and throughout each campaign, every station fixed by GPS, and gas samples cross-checked in the laboratory by gas chromatography and isotopic analysis. Our results stand on recognised standards — the same instrumentation behind the published record of this discipline.
Extended by our own probe
Alongside the standard kit we deploy an instrument engineered in-house: a 100 cm × 7 cm downhole probe for continuous, in-situ monitoring — electrochemical cells for H₂ at the tip with He and CO₂ alongside, an onboard logger, and battery-powered WiFi telemetry to the field tablet. It adds a continuous record between calibrated spot measurements; it complements the standards, never replaces them.
Full specifications on request.
The proof
Built on published science you can check.
Our technical work is led by senior geoscientists with an active peer-reviewed record in natural hydrogen. The methods behind our workflow are in the open literature, where they can be checked.
Citations to our founding scientists' published research
Peer-reviewed articles by our founding scientists
Continents covered by published field studies
Representative peer-reviewed work underpinning the methodology
Integrated multispectral remote sensing and soil-gas measurements for exploring natural hydrogen near the Kempirsai ultramafic massif, western Kazakhstan
Scientific Reports · Stages 1–2Integrated pixel-wise remote sensing and explainable machine learning for natural hydrogen exploration, Pricaspian Basin
Scientific Reports · Stage 1Origin of continuous hydrogen flux in gas manifestations at the Larderello geothermal field, central Italy
Chemical Geology · Stage 2Controls on generation and accumulation of blended gases (CH₄ / H₂ / He) in the Neoproterozoic Amadeus Basin, Australia
Marine & Petroleum Geology · Stages 2–3Natural hydrogen favorability maps: a new concept for exploration across geological contexts
De Gruyter, 2025 · Stage 1Academic partnership
Partnered with leading regional universities.
Geo-Green works with leading universities in the region through joint research projects on natural hydrogen. The methods we apply commercially — remote sensing, machine learning, gas geochemistry — are the same ones being developed and published in the peer-reviewed literature, backed by university-grade analytical capability and delivered on commercial timelines.
The people
Led from Kazakhstan. Trained for the field.
Dr. Umut Bakhbergen directs Geo-Green's operations, client engagements and project delivery — staged, documented, and answerable to the evidence.
Behind her is a team of bachelor's-, master's- and doctoral-level geoscientists trained across the full workflow: soil-gas surveying, structural mapping, gas geochemistry, remote sensing and resource modelling — supported by senior academic researchers through the company's university partnerships, and grounded in our peer-reviewed research.