Breaking news: Latest information from Qatar is that helium production has been reduced to around 25 MMcf/month over Hormuz transit safety issues
Issue No. 5 | August 17, 2026
THE BROOK REPORT
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Researchers demonstrate helium-free cooling technology designed in response to liquid-helium shortages and rising costs, highlighting how technological substitution could eventually influence helium demand.
Helium markets fluctuate significantly with changes in supply and demand. Ongoing shortages and price volatility drive innovation. New technology shows that innovation can affect demand as dramatically as an increase in supply.
Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of Gazprom's Management Committee, notes that Russian helium production increased by one-third in 2025 as Middle East disruptions drive global demand higher, strengthening Russia's role as a key supplier to China.
REV completed 3D seismic over its West Butte helium project in Montana, providing new subsurface data as the company prepares for the project's first drilling campaign.
Spanish authorities granted Mantle8 Iberia an exploration permit targeting naturally occurring hydrogen and helium, adding another European region to the emerging search for geologic helium resources.
A new five-year LNG offtake agreement advances Tetra4's Phase 1 commercialization as the Virginia Gas Project continues targeting approximately 70 Mcf/day of liquid helium production.
Natural hydrogen discoveries may contain helium, raising an important commercial question: is it the helium or the hydrogen that drives the economic bus?
Every two weeks or so, we see Blue Star Helium and Helium One publish press releases announcing the delivery of another tube trailer containing around 150 Mcf of helium. This week, we saw that their third trailer load has shipped.
News reports following a sad and deadly Cairo incident repeatedly described a "helium cylinder explosion." Helium is inert and nonflammable: pressurized cylinders can rupture violently, but helium itself doesn't explode.
Hydrogen, by contrast, has a less reassuring history.
Just ask the Germans.