# Helium and Natural gas

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/helium-and-natural-gas/

[Helium](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/helium/) (commodity) and [Natural gas](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/natural_gas/) (energy): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: co-product

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Helium is a by-product of processing helium-rich natural gas, so new supply arrives only when gas plants are built. The proxy index barely tracks the gas price: monthly moves correlate at -0.02 and yearly moves at 0.26, because gas prices do not decide helium output.

- **-0.02** monthly change correlation
- **0.26** 12-month change correlation
- **0.18** fitted elasticity

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