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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.
In late February, the Canada-based Pulsar Helium announced that it found a reserve of the gas at its Minnesota “Topaz” site in excess of 12.4 percent, an estimate that was revised a few weeks ...
Helium is separated out as a byproduct from natural gas, from the Hugoton field, the Panhandle field in Texas, the Greenwood field in Kansas, and the Keyes field in Oklahoma. [6] Much of the recovered helium is piped to the National Helium Reserve in Amarillo, Texas, where it is stored underground in geologic formations for future use.
The oil and gas reservoir was the primary helium source for the United States during the 1910s and at the commencement of World War I. By 1921, the North Texas natural gas field was estimated as near gas depletion exceeding the Petrolia helium reserves-to-production ratio yields. [3]
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[1] [3] [2] The amount of stored helium was very small before 1962 and the amount of available helium was essentially determined by the production of natural gas, from which it is separated as a side product, rather than by market forces. [2] [4] This situation changed in the early 1960s with the creation of the United States National Helium ...
The Helium Privatization Act of 1996 is a United States statute that ordered the US government to sell much of the National Helium Reserve.The United States 104th Congressional session passed the Act of Congress presenting the legislation to the United States President on September 30, 1996.