Helium is a scarce strategic element with a wide range of high-tech uses. Helium is typically extracted as a minor by-product from gas wells, with the United States being the largest producer. While some helium has an ultimate mantle source, much of the helium in sedimentary basins is derived from radioactive decay of uranium and thorium in the basement, or within the basin itself. Accumulation is very slow and trapping is difficult, so rich accumulations (>1% He) favour old basins with excellent seals, or recent remobilisation from such reservoirs. Components of the Centralian Superbasin, including the Amadeus and Officer basins, contain an early Neoproterozoic (c. 800 Ma) evaporite succession with extensive salt seals near the base of the succession. Although older salt deposits are known, these are perhaps the oldest preserved on a basin-wide scale. At least locally, the salt overlies gas-prone source rocks and sandstone that could act as a reservoir. Drilling through salt to basement in two wells in the eastern Amadeus Basin resulted in gas flows with exceptional helium contents of 6% and 9%. One well also flowed 11% hydrogen, although the mechanism for hydrogen generation and preservation is unclear. Although uneconomic due to reservoir limitations, these wells