HELIUM GAS

Today, the U.S. alone produces 75 percent of the world’ s helium. Nearly half of that total, or roughly 30 percent of the world’ s helium supply, comes from the U.S. Federal Helium Reserve. That reserve is held in a huge natural underground reservoir near Amarillo called the Bush Dome. The dome is connected to a pipeline that links the stored helium with nearby helium refining facilities and the natural gas fields in Kansas. Helium helped propelled NASA spaceward. But now, the nation is selling off its vast helium reserve — in such a ham-fisted way that it’ s led to a shortage of the gas. In 1996, a cost-cutting Republican Congress passed legislation requiring the government to get rid of most of its massive helium stockpile, which is located underground near Amarillo, Texas, the self-proclaimed helium capital of the world. NASA, Congress proclaimed, would have to get its helium from private operators instead. Although helium is the second most abundant element in the universe, most of it in the Earth’ s atmosphere bleeds off into space. Helium used for industrial purposes is a byproduct of natural gas production, and the Texas Panhandle is the United States’ helium capital. In the natural gas fields near Amarillo, the U.S. government maintains the country’ s largest helium storehouse. The government put it there back in 1925 because natural gas produced at the gas fields between Amarillo and Hugoton, Kan., has a very high helium concentration— up to 1.9 percent. Although other countries produce helium, the natural gas fields elsewhere around the globe are much less helium-rich than those near Amarillo. Because helium was critical to military reconnaissance and space exploration in the mid-20th Century, the US Congress mandated that the government encourage private helium producers nationwide to sell their helium to the government and store it near Amarillo as part of the Federal Helium Program. Today, the U.S. alone produces 75 percent of the world’ s helium. Nearly half of that total, or roughly 30 percent of the world’ s helium supply, comes from the U.S. Federal Helium Reserve. That reserve is held in a huge natural underground reservoir near Amarillo called the Bush Dome. The dome is connected to a pipeline that links the stored helium with nearby helium refining facilities and the natural gas fields in Kansas. Yet the American reserve is in danger. Links: - http: / / www.popularmechanics.com/ science/ health/ med-tech/ why-is-there-a-heliu m-shortage-10031229# ixzz230iIqQ2w - http: / / www.blm.gov/ nm/ st/ en/ prog/ energy/ helium/ federal_ helium_ program.html - http: / / www.washingtonpost.com/ business/ dwindling-helium-stockpile-has-congre ss-businesses-worried/ 2012/ 05/ 11/ gIQAGvcILU_ story.html We, PT. Surya Indotim Imex ( SII) , has secured certain global helium assets, including long-term helium supply contracts with sources in the world through gas companies who have direct access to sources of helium. These companies currently have access to supply from some of the world’ s fifteen helium sources and operates a global network of many helium transfills. Rest assured, we will make sure you will always have the helium product you need at any moment to continuously support your operations and productions.