A restricted number of production sites
Helium production sites are limited and concentrated in a minority of countries, particularly in United States, Qatar, Algeria, Australia, Russia and Poland.
Uses
booming
Helium is a key resource essential for many industries, such as new technologies. The number of uses keeps increasing every day !
UNEQUALLY DISTRIBUTED PRODUCTION
The places of consumption do not coincide with production areas. As a result, Western Europe imports all its helium needs at high energy costs.
NO EFFECTIVE
SUBSTITUTE
Helium has unique properties that most of users have so far not been able to substitute.
Unsustainable
synthesis
Helium synthesis is possible but complex and inefficient to represent a viable alternative.
Dependency to
NATURAL GAS
The majority of helium reserves, mostly discovered by chance, are a by-product of natural gas fields.
HELIUM PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
HELIUM USES