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Helium – essential for many medical and industrial processes – is in critically short supply worldwide. Production is also associated with significant carbon emissions, contributing to climate change.
This study provides a new concept in gas field formation to explain why, in rare places, helium accumulates naturally in high concentrations just beneath the Earth’s surface.
The findings could help locate new reservoirs of carbon-free helium – and potentially also hydrogen.
Research led by the University of Oxford could help overturn the current supply crisis of helium, a vital societal resource. The study proposes a new model to account for the existence of previously unexplained helium-rich reservoirs. The findings, published today in Nature, could help locate untapped reservoirs of accessible helium.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-03-02-new-study-could-help-pinpoint-hidden-helium-gas-fields-and-avert-global-supply-0
I didn't think they had started extracting
https://www-matukiodaimamedia-co-tz.translate.goog/2023/10/sekta-ya-madini-imekusanya-shillingi.html?_x_tr_sl=sw&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
Stephen Gunnion (SG): Can you tell us about the significance of the helium concentration found at the Itumbula West-1 well?
YanaAlikhan (YA): Absolutely, it's a game-changer. We're looking at helium concentrations up to 4.7%, which positions us as a world-class helium source. Considering commercial viability in other projects starts at just 0.5%, and ours is pure helium without hydrocarbons, it's a monumental achievement. This could potentially make us one of the largest primary helium sources globally.
This little company dubbed a failure by pretty much everyone, drills one hole with free flowing natural helium and hydrogen to the surface and just look how much interest these now is, and, we is only just getting going.
We have a 6m wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcVxZiIj13Q
It speaks wonders for this community that we give time to Yana. Looking at his posts they never contain fact or intellectual reasoning, so it is clear as anything, he is simply bored and here to practise his English.
I love the way we help those in need, just marvellous.
As I talked with Minchin about this seeming economic impasse in a quiet London pub, he responded with characteristic optimism. The team had made mistakes, he said, but it is rare to succeed on a first try. Soon he would fly to the Middle East to speak to a potential investor. “The basin is more than 1,000 square miles, and we’ve drilled a 3-inch hole,” he told me. “The helium is there, but we just need to get it.”
He was gearing up for another expedition in the spring.
Sandyman, I wish you well with your mental health issues, because one look at your profile and you’ve got some serious stuff going on. Now do everyone a favour and trot off back to Lloyds, Debenhams, and the other dross you’ve thrown all your money at, but most of all keep taking the meds and stay calm lol
This article highlights the massive problems with helium extraction from natural gas. A must read for the investor (Oh and Helium One get a mention)
Concerns regarding inequality between helium demand and production can be addressed by developing other improved helium recovery processes than the conventionally high capital intensive cryogenic separation technologies.
In order to economically recover lower content helium (< 0.05 %) from natural gas and distinguish between optimal designs for Southern Africa’s helium-rich gas reserves, it is clear that an integrated approach between cryogenic distillation for direct recovery of helium from natural and membrane-/adsorption-based processes for crude helium upgrading and purification must be designed.
Adsorption-based processes excluding cryogenics are not recommended for direct helium recovery from natural gas. Limitations were found for separating impurities and other gases from helium in low-quality gas streams, resulting in lower helium recoveries.
Although membrane-based technologies cannot yet compete with cryogenic separation for direct helium recovery from natural gas, there will be continual future interest and research developments due to the potential energy costs savings and lower associated process costs.
https://epcmholdings.com/process-technologies-for-helium-recovery-from-natural-gas-a-review/
In the context of climate change and the search for new energies to reduce our carbon footprint, natural hydrogen and helium exploration has been underway for years. Accumulations of these gasses have been identified in many countries and new volumes are still being discovered around the world.
Decades of oil and gas exploration have significantly trimmed interests in other natural energy resources, hence leading to a limited amount of data and articles dedicated to hydrogen, helium and carbon dioxide exploration. More recently however, exploration of such resources has experienced renewed interest at an unprecedented level.
I find it amusing that deramping scum feel the need to post in an aggressive manner, which is quite ironic from behind a keyboard lol. I guess they feel this approach lessens the need to post factual evidence backed up with intellectual reasoning. We could very well be in the presence of a Darwin Award winner, now that would be something.
Enough pure helium for the next 100 years, but what does that actually mean?
https://borgenproject.org/tag/the-rukwa-project/
Traditional helium extraction and processing is dead in the water, simply because to extract is not environmentally friendly, expensive and produces excessive greenhouse gases.
Game changer indeed Lorna.
The first message from on high, came a few weeks ago when I was staying in a hotel for the weekend. Guy walked past me carrying 2 tanks of helium gas.
Now I go in the garden and what do I see, a helium ballon, from where it came I have no idea as we live on a remote farm, but it is there clear as day.
TK-Max
Now listen here Boy. I’m going to give you some free advice, I know it will hurt listening to someone and even worse, taking notice, but this really will help you.
Read what is written below slowly or if too difficult get someone else to read it, and concentrate as hard as you can on the word ‘PURE’. Then you can run along and play outside.
Stephen Gunnion (SG): Can you tell us about the significance of the helium concentration found at the Itumbula West-1 well?
Lorna Blaisse (LB): Absolutely, it's a game-changer. We're looking at helium concentrations up to 4.7%, which positions us as a world-class helium source. Considering commercial viability in other projects starts at just 0.5%, and ours is pure helium without hydrocarbons, it's a monumental achievement. This could potentially make us one of the largest primary helium sources globally.
EP145 contains prospective resources x4 larger than HE1. 26.4 BCF of Helium v 7.1 BCF.
Pure helium tragic boy or that stuff mixed with natural gas where you have to pay a fortune and tear a hole in the ozone layer to extract at 0.35%.
You were quiet yesterday; you were missed. Just make sure you are here all the way to a £1 lol Boy!
The words from our CEO could not be clearer
Stephen Gunnion (SG): Can you tell us about the significance of the helium concentration found at the Itumbula West-1 well?
Lorna Blaisse (LB): Absolutely, it's a game-changer. We're looking at helium concentrations up to 4.7%, which positions us as a world-class helium source. Considering commercial viability in other projects starts at just 0.5%, and ours is pure helium without hydrocarbons, it's a monumental achievement. This could potentially make us one of the largest primary helium sources globally.
All we need is for her to do her magic and source a lake of oil
Oil companies, nevertheless, may have certain interests in the form of their investments that could contribute to influencing their support for certain routes for potential pipelines. Total's proactive stance vis-à-vis the EACOP can, in part, be explained by Total's 2017 decisions to explore oil in and around Lakes Tanganyika, Eyasi, Wembere and Rukwa. Both Eyasi and Wembere lie along the pipeline route. The EACOP, feeding south and east, will thus link more easily to Total's other oil interests in the Rift Valley system.11 Accordingly, Total lobbied aggressively for the Tanga pipeline—and continued to raise capital for the venture—until a final deal was signed in April 2021.