Helium

Atlas Copco and Linde Industrial Gases Group have cooperated on a global scale with hundreds of high pressure compressors providing power for Linde gas supply facilities.

Midway through 2014 and the global industrial gases industry is in the midst of a gradually improving business environment.

MATHESON and Air Products have confirmed the start of production operations at their jointly-owned liquid helium production plant near Big Piney, Wyoming.

Air Liquide will be playing a key role in an international project known as ITER which is aiming to develop an experimental fusion reactor as a new source of energy.

On the 18th of March 2014 Cryomech Inc and Dr. Chao Wang were issued United States Patent no. 8,671,698 for the Gas liquefier invented by Dr. Chao Wang.

The first Grasys industrial membrane plant in Russia for helium recovery from natural gas has been successfully tested at the Kovykta gas and condensate field.

Last year all the talk was of the impending Helium Cliff scenario and as 2013 began, it was clear that it would be a significant year for the global helium business.

Airgas has announced today that it plans to increase prices on helium by 20%, on average, effective immediately or as contracts permit.

Further to plans first announced in June earlier this year, a new liquid and gaseous helium transfilling station has been inaugurated at the Ras Laffan Support Services Area in northeast Qatar.

RasGas has inaugurated its second helium operation in Qatar, known as Helium 2 and marking an important shift in the make-up of the global helium market.