Specialty Gas Summit 2026: What We Heard on Helium

Jun 22
4 min read

AKAP Energy attended gasworld's Specialty Gas Summit in Frankfurt, where alongside presenting AKAP's helium data we had useful conversations across the value chain, from distributors to end users, producers and traders, and sat in on several of the helium and rare gas sessions. Although it was a conference focused on all gases, helium was the dominant gas discussed, unsurprisingly given the Iran conflict and impact. The main industrial gas companies were represented with the notable absence of Air Products. There was little representation from helium developers with only 45-8 and D3 represented.

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