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Cliffside Gas Field is located in the Texas Panhandle bearing 9 miles (14 km) west of Texas Highway 87 and 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Amarillo, Texas. The Great Plains Panhandle area is located in Potter County, Texas within the vicinity of the unincorporated community Cliffside, Texas .
The Crude Helium Enrichment Unit in the Cliffside Gas Field. Remnants of the Amarillo Helium Plant in 2015. The National Helium Reserve, also known as the Federal Helium Reserve, is a strategic reserve of the United States, which once held over 1 billion cubic meters (about 170,000,000 kg) [a] of helium gas.
The Helium Acts Amendments of 1960 (Pub. L. 86–777) empowered the U.S. Bureau of Mines to arrange for five private plants to recover helium from natural gas. The Bureau also built a 425-mile (684 km) pipeline from Bushton, Kansas, to connect those plants with the government's partially depleted Cliffside gas field, near Amarillo, Texas. The ...
Amarillo's Cliffside Gas Plant will begin the sale process, a decade after Congress passed the Helium Stewardship Act of 2013. Amarillo's Cliffside Gas Plant up for sale, including pipeline and ...
Cliffside Gas Plant at 13301 Brickplant Road in Amarillo is now for sale.
The Texas A&M Forest Service noted evacuations may be necessary if fires spark, and urged Texans to have a plan ready in case of emergency. Texas Panhandle, areas near Amarillo and Lubbock face ...
Discovery of natural gas in 1918 and oil three years later brought oil and gas companies to the Amarillo area. [11] The United States government bought the Cliffside Gas Field with high helium content in 1927 and the Federal Bureau of Mines began operating the Amarillo Helium plant two years later. [18]
Natural gas power stations opened at a fast rate throughout the 2010s, quickly replacing aging, dirty, and economically unviable coal-fired power stations, but by the early 2020s new plants were mostly wind and solar with only Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania continuing to open significant numbers of gas plants. [3]