The fate of America’s largest helium supply is up in the air
For more than a year, the fate of the Helium Federal Reserve, one of the world's largest and most trusted suppliers of helium, has been uncertain. The gigantic underground structure is made up of nearly 500 miles of pipeline, stretching from Amarillo, Texas, to the Oklahoma Peninsula and Kansas, and supplies approximately 40% of the world's helium. “It was supposed to be sold by 2021,” said Sophia Hayes, a professor of chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis and one of the country's leading helium experts. "But for the last year, it's been quiet." For the better part of a…
