The discovery of helium 150 years ago is being marked with a celebration at the Helium Time Columns Monument in Amarillo, Texas, on Saturday, 29th September (10am to 2pm).
Helium will again be the focus four days later elsewhere in Texas with the beginning of gasworld’s Helium Summit 2018 at the Marriott Marquis, Houston, which will provide insight into the declining capacity of the US Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Helium Pipeline.
The Helium Time Columns was unveiled in 1968 to mark the 100th anniversary of the discovery of helium and is in Amarillo due to the Texas city being home of the US government’s strategic helium reserve and gas production, which has operated from the Cliffside Gas Field since 1927.
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