In May 2016, IACX Energy tapped the BLM helium pipeline to begin taking receipt of crude helium from the BLM helium reserve. With this action, IACX became the first company to tap the government line and join the refiner community since the passage of the Helium Stewardship Act of 2013. The company is refining this crude into ultra-high purity product which is being marketed directly into the gaseous helium arena.
This tapping event, along with the commissioning of its first high-purity facility, signifies continued progress in IACX’s helium offering.
The receipt point of this BLM gas is located in central Kansas at IACX’s Otis facility, which is the same site of IACX’s first helium plant, commissioned in 2009. Prior to 2009, the company had been operating a nitrogen rejection facility at the Otis site where regional, low-Btu natural gas deposits were treated by removing nitrogen and selling the residual methane via pipeline. This part of central Kansas is coincidentally a region where deposits of helium were historically exploited; however, the company’s entrée into the area started with nitrogen rejection, not helium.
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