RE: Let’s Talk Simple Maths… 10 BCF Style 💸7 Jun 2025 16:41
Are We Running Out of Helium?
The BLM Helium reserve is located in the Texas panhandle, stretching through Oklahoma and Kansas. While the reserves have taken millions of years of radioactive decay to cultivate, the BLM has taken nearly 100 years to deplete the supply. It was established in 1925 and is expected to run out by 2025. However, the BLM has until September 2021 to sell all of its federally owned assets, which includes plant facilities, crude Helium pipelines, gas wells, maintenance stations and storage systems. According to gasworld, these assets will be sold in auctions or sealed bids to public or private parties. During the transition, the plant will at least be shut down temporarily, greatly affecting the Helium market across the world.
With the discovery of the deposit in Tanzania, there is hope that the Helium market will be sustainable for some time after the BLM goes offline, or eventually runs out. Even so, deposits of this non-renewable resource will continue to be depleted rapidly if conservation and recycling efforts are not made. Large companies like General Electric have been innovating Helium recycling systems for MRI machines. The medical, automotive, aerospace, balloon and other industries that rely on Helium will be negatively affected if the Helium market continues to fall at such a rapid pace.
Most of the world's Helium comes as a byproduct of decaying uranium and fossil fuels. Today, the world's Helium supply relies on reserves in the United States, the Middle East, Russia and North Africa. There are only 14 liquid Helium refineries in the world, half of which are in the United States.
Ahem, and now HE1's in Tanzania #Globally significant"