Helium
The Helium Program, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management, ensures that the Federal Government receives proper payment for helium extracted from federal mineral acreage.
What’s New:
The BLM has developed a new interactive Helium Web Map that is intended to help promote helium development and production on public lands by highlighting the location of helium concentrations, including if it occurs alongside helium processing plants.
This map uses publicly available national datasets of natural gas geochemistry, including helium. The dataset is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey and reports the measured values of helium in molar percent, which helps operators gauge helium concentration.
This dataset contains information from 1920 to 2005 and is from 21,000 well gas sample analyses. In addition, concentrations of various other gases are provided, if available, including hydrogen, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, argon, oxygen, methane, and others.
It also includes a layer depicting helium gas processing plants, and other infrastructure published in the U.S. Geological Survey’s 2023 Helium Minerals Yearbook, which provides standardized, reliable information on where helium and helium infrastructure is located. The Helium Web Map includes clickable layers for users to display Federal Helium Agreements, Hugoton Settlement Agreements, Public Land Survey System, Historic Helium Concentration Areas, and Federal oil and gas leases.
