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Helium and LNG chain

Their prices have moved together.

Helium (commodity) and LNG chain (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: co-product

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Qatar recovers helium from the tail gas of its LNG trains, so LNG outages or expansions change world helium supply. The proxy index shows a modest link, with monthly moves at 0.15 and yearly moves at 0.39, as LNG prices and helium volumes are only loosely connected.

  • 0.15 monthly change correlation
  • 0.39 12-month change correlation
  • 0.08 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.