Canadian natural hydrogen developer Max Power Mining Corporation has verified multiple prospective natural hydrogen and helium zones at the Bracken exploration well, located 325 km south-west of its Lawson discovery.

The company garnered an independent petrophysical evaluation by GLJ to verify the zones and provide further evidence to support basin-scale continuity of natural hydrogen systems across Saskatchewan.

Max Power confirms Bracken as its next major testing programme focus concurrent with Lawson commercial validation drilling.

Bracken represents the first step-out test from the Lawson discovery, with Max Power having set out to determine similar geological conditions at this target and thereby confirm the existence of a much broader regional natural hydrogen system.

Max Power will start with a comprehensive testing programme at Bracken in mid-July.

"The scale of what is possible here, from the Genesis Trend to Bracken and elsewhere, is truly remarkable as demonstrated by the first two wells drilled 325 km apart. We have learned much about Bracken, thanks in part to the unique and proprietary knowledge gained from Lawson in recent weeks and months, especially with completion and interpretation of a 3D seismic programme.

"It is shaping up to be an extraordinary summer in Saskatchewan with Max Power in a favourable position to make resource history yet again with respect to natural hydrogen," says Max Power chief geoscientist Steve Halabura.

Max Power CEO Ran Narayanasamy adds that independent validation by GLJ as a globally recognised independent energy resource evaluation firm reinforces the company's confidence in the potential of the Bracken deposit and further strengthens the broader geological model emerging across Saskatchewan.

"With commercial validation drilling commencing at Lawson and comprehensive completions testing beginning at Bracken, both in July, we are advancing two highly complementary programmes designed to define the scale, continuity, and commercial potential of what points to a globally leading natural hydrogen basin," he concludes.