Systems and methods for enhanced detection and quantification of chemical species

A chemical instrumentation system for enhanced quantification of geologic hydrogen in a gas stream from a wellbore, the chemical instrumentation system comprising:

• gas stream tubing configured to:
• receive a mud fluid stream from the wellbore, wherein the mud fluid stream includes geologic hydrogen and geologic hydrogen derivatives, and
• split a gas stream from the mud fluid stream;
• means for separating one or more gases other than hydrogen from the mud fluid stream to produce the gas stream;
• a gas chromatography configuration coupled to the gas stream, the gas chromatography configuration including:
• a gas chromatography column configured to receive the gas stream, and
• one of a thermal conductivity detector or a photoionization detector coupled to the gas chromatography column and configured to quantify gas species eluted from the gas chromatography column, wherein the gas species includes the geologic hydrogen and the geologic hydrogen derivatives;
• and
• a computing device having a processor and memory storage operably coupled to the processor, the memory storage having one or more computer programming routines, the processor configured to read and execute the one or more computer programming routines, wherein the one or more computer programming routines include machine readable and executable instructions to:
• quantify an amount of geologic hydrogen in the gas stream;
• quantify an amount of geologic hydrogen derivatives in the gas stream;
• correlate the amount of geologic hydrogen derivatives in the gas stream to an estimated amount of source hydrogen;
• and
• generate the enhanced quantification of hydrogen in the gas stream based on the amount of geologic hydrogen in the gas stream and the estimated amount of source hydrogen.