Helium

Since Covid-19 took a chunk out of helium demand and brought Helium Shortage 3.0 to a rather abrupt end in February 2020, there has been a relative lack of headline events impacting helium markets. The...

Chart Industries has today (16th Feb) acquired Cryogenic Gas Technologies (Cryo Technologies) for $55m in cash.

A new solution for the efficient transportation and storage of ultra-cold biologics, such as Covid-19 vaccines, has been launched by South African helium and natural gas company Renergen.

Tumbleweed Midstream, LLC has struck a new $500m, ten-year helium sales agreement with a global Tier One helium supplier.

Qatargas has loaded the 10,000th cargo of helium from its Helium 2 plant, in what the state-run LNG producer described today as a “significant milestone”.

Renergen’s Virginia Gas Project in South Africa’s Free State has taken a step forward with the appointment of three companies to complete feasibility studies for its second phase.

Google has shut down its Loon project, which hoped to make giant helium balloons an alternative to cell towers in remote areas of the world.

Marshall Excelsior Company (MEC), a Harbour Group company, has acquired the assets of CPC-Cryolab, a leading provider of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium valves, and Rockwood Swendeman (CPC) a manufacturer of cryogenic safety valves.

Work to mobilise surface geochemical exploration at the Eyasi Project in southern Tanzania has commenced, Helium One said today (20th Jan).

Founded more than 135 years ago as a brass foundry in the North German city of Kiel, Sauer Compressors today is a medium-sized German group of companies with 13 international subsidiaries. It focuses on the...