MCS 2026 sheet
Helium
HeIndustrialFederal helium system wind-down; private BLM-adjacent wells in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arizona.
U.S. production 2025
68
million cubic meters
U.S. value
$720M
price +9%
World production
160
million cubic meters
Net import reliance
0%
Qatar / Algeria (spot)
Primary uses
MRI, welding, leak detection, rocketry
Atlas sites
No named atlas site — use the 10,000 census.