The National Research Council’s (NRC) recent report for the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) titled “Selling the Nation’s Helium Reserve,” produced important findings, conclusions, and recommendations that relate to the worldwide and US helium markets.
As most CryoGas International readers know, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) (www.blm.gov) is responsible for managing the United States’ Federal Helium Reserve and for selling crude helium (a gas mixture that’s between 50 and 80 percent helium) to private-sector helium refiners, who market...
Since its start-up in January this year, Linde’s state-of-the-art helium liquefaction plant at Wickham Point, near Darwin, Australia, has been steadily ramping up to full capacity of 150 million cubic feet of helium per annum.
The Global Gases Group (www.global gases.com), a multinational industrial gas company headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is a leading player in the supply of helium, MRI helium, welding gases, and the offshore gas requirements of customers operating vessels and barges working...
This month we provide our yearly review of helium, a topic in the forefront of the news. A lot has happened in the past year including a decline in helium demand in 2009 due to the recession. In January 2010,...
In this interview, CryoGas International talks with MATHESON’s (www.matheson gas.com) Phil Kornbluth and Bob Lein about their Company’s perspective on the worldwide helium business, the National Research Council’s (NRC) recently released helium study (“Selling the Nation’s Helium Reserve”), and the Bureau of Land...
As a commodity, helium is in increased demand and scarce supply. This situation places pressure on existing helium production capacities and has stimulated the need for developing intelligent technologies that conserve helium resources. There are a number of recycling and recovery methods...
Have your customers been complaining about the high price of helium? This is a big concern at ULVAC (www.ulvac. com), an international corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets helium recovery and reuse systems.
Simple, small, smooth, inert, and lighter than air, helium is especially useful to anyone that needs to make a small molecule transfer in their work process. This tiny and inert molecule is ideal for leak detection.
During 2006 and 2007, worldwide helium supply was very tightly balanced with demand and remained that way for the first three quarters of 2008.
