Method for improving unconventional hydrogen development

Abstract

A method for improving natural hydrogen recovery through hydrogen fracturing includes obtaining field data from a hydrogen-containing formation and generating, by a computer processor and a series of models, a surface production rate, a compression value where the compression value is a pressure of pressurized hydrogen used to fracture the hydrogen-containing formation, a well path, a set of well separation distances, a fracture half-length where the fracture half-length is half of a total length of a fracture caused by a fracturing of the hydrogen-containing formation using pressurized hydrogen, and a well production rate. Using a well analysis, the fracture half-length, the well path, the well separation distances, and the well production rate are evaluated. Based on the surface production rate, the compression value, the fracture half-length, the well path, the well separation distances, the well production rate, and the field data, field operations are performed on the hydrogen-containing formation.