It’s not all hot-air balloons and funny voices. Investors are starting to get excited about Helium stocks, and for good reason.
The well-known and little-produced gas is important for a variety of industries. The most commonly known include filling up balloons and airships, but today helium’s low temperature liquidity makes it a cooling agent for superconducting magnets in medicine, especially MRIs, as well as rockets, plasma processes, and other high-tech uses.
But the market is getting hot because supply is about to hit a tipping point. Most of the world’s helium is produced as a by-product of natural gas production, and direct production from the US government is coming to a close by 2021 as it makes way for the public sector. With demand for helium related products set to increase over time, a looming supply glut exists.
Helium One is an independent specialist explorer focussed on delineating and developing globally significant helium assets in Tanzania, Solo Oil PLC (LON:SOLO) has a 15% equity in the company.