Helium is perhaps best known to the general public for its use in party balloons and at the Thanksgiving Day parades in New York City and elsewhere.
However, the unique physical and chemical properties of helium make it valuable and indeed irreplaceable in a wide variety of scientific, biomedical, industrial, and national strategic and defense applications, all of which are discussed in this chapter.
The first section provides an overview of the demand for helium in the United States and other countries since 1990 and the second a forecast of demand for helium.
Helium One Global Ltd (LON:HE1) was founded in September 2015. The Company’s focus is to explore, develop, and ultimately, become a producer of high-grade helium for the international market, a critical material essential in modern technologies.