45-8 Energy has inaugurated a helium pilot production facility in France’s Nièvre region, which it claims is the first of its kind in western Europe.
The Fonts-Bouillants project, inaugurated on Wednesday (September 11), aims to extract helium identified in shallow gas deposits of less than 100m deep.
The primary goal of the pilot is to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of long-term helium production in the area.
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