Senior executives from major Japanese strategic investors recently visited Gold Hydrogen’s (ASX:GHY) Ramsay Project operations on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula.
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (TYO:4182) (MGC) President and CEO Yoshinori Isahaya toured the natural hydrogen and helium project alongside senior management.
ENEOS Xplora representatives visited the site last week, while Toyota Motor (TYO:7203) is scheduled to visit later this month.
The three Japanese companies invested $14.5 million into Gold Hydrogen in July 2025.
Managing Director Neil McDonald says the visits represent a significant milestone in progressing Ramsay from exploration towards potential development and commercialisation.
“When we brought Mitsubishi Gas Chemical, ENEOS Xplora, and Toyota into Gold Hydrogen as strategic investors, our objective was never simply to raise capital. We wanted to bring some of the world’s most capable companies in energy, chemicals, hydrogen, and mobility directly into the Ramsay Project opportunity pipeline,” McDonald says.
“The fact that their senior executives want to come to Ramsay, see the wells and [test] for themselves, and explore practical applications for our natural hydrogen is an extremely important development for Gold Hydrogen.”
MGC President Yoshinori Isahaya adds that it was ‘pleasing’ to see the ‘significant’ progress being made onsite to extract natural hydrogen.
The visit follows a memorandum of understanding signed between MGC and Gold Hydrogen in June 2026 to assess the feasibility of a green methanol production facility on the Yorke Peninsula.
Gold Hydrogen has demonstrated the ability to flow helium to the surface and separate and purify it to commercial levels during testing at Ramsay 1 and Ramsay 2.
The company is advancing its Ramsay 3 testing program for both natural hydrogen and helium.
Gold Hydrogen is an energy explorer focused on the discovery and development of naturally occurring geological hydrogen and helium resources.
Write to Paula Fabe at Mining.com.au
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