To: Huebolt
In natural gas drilling, helium is considered an unburnable impurity. If I had a well that produced a few percent helium and another that produced pure methane, the pure methane well would be better unless it was worth my trouble to chill the mixed gas and distill out the helium. With a lot of new natual gas wells being drilled, a lower percentage of the gas is coming from the helum rich wells in Texas.
22 posted on
06/21/2012 9:13:48 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
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To: KarlInOhio
In natural gas drilling, helium is considered an unburnable impurity. If I had a well that produced a few percent helium and another that produced pure methane, the pure methane well would be better unless it was worth my trouble to chill the mixed gas and distill out the helium. With a lot of new natual gas wells being drilled, a lower percentage of the gas is coming from the helum rich wells in Texas. That answers my question. I wondered why would there be a shortage of helium with all the natural gas production going on.
28 posted on
06/21/2012 10:13:34 AM PDT by
Moonman62
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