CONSERVE HELIUM
An Essential Resource for All Generations
SCIENCE · HISTORY · STEWARDSHIP
Sources and Methods
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On this page · Evidence and advocacy · Dates, quantities and uncertainty · The separate RMH archive · Foundation sources · 2026 news sources
Project reference: About and accountability · Contact status and corrections · Review and update record · All topics.
Weekly automated monitoring now covers all 118 registered sources. Editorial review checks substantive changes separately; successful retrieval does not establish factual currentness. The update record identifies current access issues and the news-coverage cutoff.
Evidence and advocacy
Conserve Helium is a conservation project. Its recommendation to retire helium-filled party balloons is an advocacy position. Scientific, historical and policy claims should be traceable to the sources linked beside them.
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Dates, quantities and uncertainty
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Keep units, estimate flags and reporting periods with numerical claims. Resource estimates, annual production, stored inventories and operating rates are not interchangeable.
News coverage currently runs through October 23, 2026. Items labeled as announcements or preprints remain subject to later verification.
The separate RMH archive
The Rocky Mountain Helium, LLC archive is a special project covering 1995–2017. Its narrative and the related Interior/Enron record will be developed after the public foundation sections.
Project organizer Christopher Sullivan has a connection to RMH. The archive will distinguish participant accounts, contracts, contemporaneous records, agency positions and court findings. The general science pages make no claim that RMH supplied a particular clock, MRI system or semiconductor facility.
Foundation sources
Royal Society of Chemistry · S01
Helium: properties, uses and discovery
USGS · S02
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026: Helium and rare gases
BLM · S03
BLM announces disposal process
BLM · S04
BLM completes sale of Federal Helium System
NIST · S06
Gazprom · S08
Gazprom Board approves helium development
NIST · S13
USGS · S14
National assessment of helium resources within known natural gas reservoirs
American Chemical Society · S15
Discovery of helium in natural gas
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes / Nobel Foundation · S16
Investigations into properties of substances at low temperatures
CERN · S17
Cryogenics: low temperatures, high performance
NASA · S18
Propellants, Life Support Branch fuels NASA missions
U.S. Congress / GovInfo · S19
Helium Privatization Act of 1996
U.S. Congress / GovInfo · S20
Helium Stewardship Act of 2013
National Research Council · S25
Selling the Nation's Helium Reserve — summary
APS / ACS / MRS · S27
Responding to the U.S. research community's liquid helium crisis
2026 news sources
ASP Isotopes completes Renergen acquisition — ASP Isotopes [S39]
Recirculating helium cooling for silicon detectors — Richburg et al. / arXiv [S40]
QatarEnergy signs long-term helium supply deal with Air Liquide — Qatar News Agency / QatarEnergy [S33]
Renergen outlines progress toward commercial operation — ASP Isotopes [S41]
QatarEnergy halts LNG and associated production — QNA / QatarEnergy [S42]
Reuters reports helium price surge after Qatar halt — Reuters [S43]
QatarEnergy statement on missile attacks on LNG facilities — QatarEnergy [S34]
Renergen completes Phase 1 drilling program — ASP Isotopes [S44]
Philips makes case for sealed low-helium MRI — Philips [S45]
Russia introduces permission-based helium exports — Interfax [S46]
Songwe mining-licence ceremony — Helium One [S47]
Update on operational incident at Ras Laffan — QatarEnergy [S35]
Chipmakers use storage and diversified sourcing — The Wall Street Journal [S48]
China announces temporary helium export prohibition — China Ministry of Commerce / Customs [S49]
Helium One discusses first Galactica helium sale — Helium One [S50]
FT reports European exposure to Chinese export halt — Financial Times [S51]
Minister Al-Kaabi: alternative routes and damage to facilities — QatarEnergy [S12]
Stewart Valley helium facility comes onstream — North American Helium / Newsfile [S52]
Topaz helium-3 recovery evaluation agreement — Pulsar Helium [S53]
Saskatchewan confirms Stewart Valley facility opening — Government of Saskatchewan [S54]
DOE designates helium as a critical material — DOE [S30]
