Helium for Tomorrow

The Bureau of Mines helium program will assure an adequate supply of helium to meet present and future needs until about the year 2000. In addition to the production from our own plants, the Bureau will save about 62.5 billion cubic feet of helium under contracts with private plants that will extract helium from natural gas en route to fuel markets. We are saving this helium, which would otherwise be wasted uselessly into the atmosphere, in order that it can be used in the growth of our country. This is what conservation means in the Bureau of Mines as it relates to natural resources - not hoarding, but wise and efficient use.