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Helium: A market update

As has typically been the case, the helium business continues to be one of the more interesting sectors of the industrial gas business.

Whether it is due to interesting applications like MRI or optical fibre manufacturing, sourcing projects in far flung parts of the world, sharp swings from shortage to over-supply or the influence of politics in the US, it seems like there is always a lot going on in the helium world – and 2015 has been no exception.

In this article, I will focus on four aspects of the helium business that I think have been particularly interesting this year: helium market conditions; new source development; the recent US Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) crude helium auction; and the increased interest in developing small fields of previously uneconomic helium-bearing gas.

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