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Huge helium discovery ‘a life-saving find’
28 Jun
Earth resources Postgraduate Researchers
A new approach to gas exploration has discovered a huge helium gas field, which could address the increasingly critical shortage of this vital yet rare element.
Helium doesn’t just make your voice squeaky – it is critical to many things we take for granted, including MRI scanners in medicine, welding, industrial leak detection and nuclear energy. However, known reserves are quickly running out. Until now helium has never been found intentionally – being accidentally discovered in small quantities during oil and gas drilling.
Now, researchers from Oxford University’s Department of Earth Sciences and Durham University, working with Norwegian helium exploration company Helium-One, have developed a brand new exploration approach. The first use of this method has resulted in the discovery of a world-class helium gas field in Tanzania."
- Source - "The presentation, New High-Grade Helium Discoveries in Tanzania, was presented on Tuesday 28 June.
The PhD studentship is supported by a Statoil grant to Prof. Jon Gluyas (Durham University) and Prof. Chris Ballentine (University of Oxford), hosted at Durham University. The investigation of the Tanzanian system was funded in addition by a Helium-One discovery contract to Prof. Chris Ballentine and Dr Pete Barry (University of Oxford)."
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