Monthly Archives: July 2014

Notes on the ISEE-3 Vector Helium Magnetometer From the Original Principal Investigator

Ed Smith, Original Original Principal Investigator on ISEE-3 Vector Helium Magnetometer: The effort to recapture the ISEE-/ ICE spacecraft has just achieved a notable scientific success. Data recovered from the spacecraft very recently show that the magnetometer is not only … Continue reading

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BP Sells Gassy Texas Panhandle, Hugoton Properties to Pantera

The Houston-based arm of BP plc expects to complete a transaction by the end of the month to hand off some of its natural gas-rich properties in the Texas Panhandle and Texas Hugoton field to Pantera Energy Co. for $390 … Continue reading

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Cold War Relic’s Closure Shunts Helium Focus to Qatar

For 50 years a vast aquifer in the heart of the Texas panhandle has held as much as 30 percent of the word’s helium reserves, acting as a safety valve that buoys supplies when the global market is interrupted. The … Continue reading

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Partnership Provides Helium Solutions

Atlas Copco and Linde Industrial Gases Group have cooperated on a global scale with hundreds of high pressure compressors providing power for Linde gas supply facilities. In 2011, Linde purchased two sets of helium compressors for its helium provision facilities … Continue reading

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How 9/11 Made The Global Helium Shortage Worse

Helium-3, an isotope or form of helium with two protons and one neutron, is especially useful for low-temperature physicists, who use this substance to research quantum properties, and its study has provided breakthroughs in understanding “hydrodynamics of intricately ordered systems, … Continue reading

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