Thanks to insider information, gasworld can exclusively reveal that the world is again dealing with a shortage of helium. Jane Dawson explores the issue further.
Sources from within the heart of the industrial gases community have alerted gasworld to a current and worsening helium shortage. The deficit of helium is a subject that has received significant media coverage for over a year, but as we discovered the issue is a lot more imminent than previously realised.
Indeed, according to industry sources the outlook is less than rosy, with informants predicting, “a sustained period of tight supply at the best of times and helium shortages during times of plant outages.”
Contributing factors
Our sources emphasised that the current shortage, similar to the last major shortage which occurred in 2006/2007, is the result of a loss of capacity from the market rather than significant growth of demand. There are a number of factors contributing to the current loss of capacity.
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