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FeaturesSauer Compressors: Extensive expertise in helium compression
Founded more than 135 years ago as a brass foundry in the North German city of Kiel, Sauer Compressors today is a medium-sized German group of companies with 13 international subsidiaries. It focuses on the development, production and sale of medium and high pressure compressors for applications in commercial shipping, ...
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In focus… LNG markets and helium production
Helium, a global commodity delivered though a complex global supply chain. Having been through various periods of peaks and troughs in supply, the increasing challenge for the helium business is the diversity and reliability of its sourcing operations.
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10 minutes with… Walter Jennings
Take 10 minutes out with Walter Jennings Chairman of Noble Helium, as he discusses his take on all the developments and discussion in helium markets over the past year, as well as the company’s aims for the year ahead.
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Helium: Focus on Europe
From Helium Shortage 2.0 to the early curtailment of Helium Shortage 3.0 last year at the hands of the Covid-19 pandemic, the last decade in the global helium business has been dominated by stories of supply and demand.
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Helium: Understanding the market in 2021
If the message this time last year was that everything you knew was about to change, then with the dawn of 2021 we are on the cusp of that significant step change in the global helium business.
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Helium One updates on Rukwa Project
Helium One on Tuesday (12 th Jan) said it has completed an environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) and compensation survey, including consultation with communities in nine villages closest to the drill locations, for its Rukwa project in southern Tanzania.
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Air Liquide and HFIPS form joint venture in China
Air Liquide and Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Science (HFIPS) will boost the development and manufacturing of helium refrigeration systems in China as part of a new joint venture.
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Denbury must pay APMTG Helium LLC $35m
The Wyoming Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from Denbury Resources which has been ordered to pay APMTG Helium LLC over $35m in damages and interest for undelivered helium.
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Amur GPP construction project reaches 70.5%
Construction of Gazprom’s Amur Gas Processing Plant (GPP) is in full swing and is currently at 70.5%, the global energy company said on Thursday (17 th Dec).
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Cryomech Inc. completes construction of new facility
Cryomech Inc. has officially completed the construction and relocation of their new facility in Syracuse, NY.
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CERN anticipates first test beams will circulate in the LHC in September 2021
CERN anticipates the first test beams will circulate in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at the end of September 2021, following scheduled shutdowns to allow important repair and upgrade work to take place.
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Roland Kuchler: Helium market “fairly balanced" for next 10 years
Singapore-based Roland Kuchler said he thinks the helium market will be fairly balanced for the next 10 years at gas world’s Asia-Pacific virtual event today.
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Changing helium landscape
Coronavirus (Covid-19) has changed our lives and disrupted business, shifting demands since the start of the global pandemic in March. Helium entered 2020 in short supply, but has the impacted of Covid-19 changed the supply-demand balance? And what is driving demand?
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Numerous challenges in helium exploration
A decade’s worth of news stories on helium shortages and prices have led to a migration of oil gas exploration and production companies (E P) into the helium development space. For any newcomer, there is plenty of romance with helium. Its scarcity, rising prices and high-tech applications have ...
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Belief in the Ladder of success
Durell Johnson’s career has come full circle. Twenty years after ending his association with the Ladder Creek Helium Plant, Johnson began 2020 as its new owner. Far from seeing it as a sentimental step back, Johnson has returned to complete a vision of making Ladder Creek one of the most ...
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Turning reserves into reliable supply
It is an exciting time for North American Helium (NAH), but for CEO and Chairman Nick Snyder the focus is to make the upstream helium exploration and production business “boring”.
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Outlook for helium in microelectronics in Covid-19 era
The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been devasting to the global economy. During most recessions the more typical or normal behaviour is for consumers to cut spending on discretionary items including technology goods and for businesses to delay investment in new PCs, equipment, to conserve cash and wait ...
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SEPURAN® Membranes
Since the beginning of the Helium Shortage 3.0, specialty chemicals group Evonik has seen increasing interest in membranes for helium purification, especially in Canada and the US.
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Helium logistics
Founded in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in its almost 60 years of business, Gardner Cryogenics has produced more than 1,900 cryogenic tanks, the first of which is still operational today.
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Helium mobile pipeline
Historically, steel tube trailers have been the only choice for transporting bulk quantities of compressed gasses. However, advances in composite technologies have made it possible to utilise composite cylinders that are considerably lighter than Type-I tube trailers. Steel tube trailers limit operational efficiencies due to the weight of the cylinders ...
