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The National Helium Reserve, also known as the Federal Helium Reserve, is a strategic reserve of the United States, which once held over 1 billion cubic meters (about 170,000,000 kg) of helium gas.[1]

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  1. 27 relations: Airship, Amarillo, Texas, Bureau of Land Management, Bushton, Kansas, Cold War, Density, General Services Administration, Helium, Helium Act of 1925, Helium Privatization Act of 1996, Helium production in the United States, Helium storage and conservation, Heritage Documentation Programs, Hugoton Gas Field, Masterson, Texas, Messer Group, Natural gas, Noble gas, Privatization, Sea level, Space Race, Strategic natural gas reserve, Strategic reserve, United States, United States Bureau of Mines, United States Congress, United States Department of the Interior.

  2. 1925 establishments in the United States
  3. Helium
  4. Strategic reserves of the United States
  5. United States Bureau of Mines

Airship

An airship is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate through the air flying under its own power.

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Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo (Spanish for "yellow") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County.

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Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering U.S. federal lands.

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Bushton, Kansas

Bushton is a city in Rice County, Kansas, United States.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Density

Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is a substance's mass per unit of volume.

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General Services Administration

The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies.

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Helium

Helium (from lit) is a chemical element; it has symbol He and atomic number 2.

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Helium Act of 1925

Helium Act of 1925, 50 USC § 161, is a United States statute drafted for the purpose of conservation, exploration, and procurement of helium gas. National Helium Reserve and helium Act of 1925 are helium.

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Helium Privatization Act of 1996

The Helium Privatization Act of 1996 is a United States statute that ordered the US government to sell much of the National Helium Reserve. National Helium Reserve and Helium Privatization Act of 1996 are helium.

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Helium production in the United States

Helium production in the United States totaled 73 million cubic meters in 2014. National Helium Reserve and Helium production in the United States are helium.

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Helium storage and conservation

Helium storage and conservation is a process of maintaining supplies of helium and preventing wasteful loss. National Helium Reserve and helium storage and conservation are helium.

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Heritage Documentation Programs

Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) is a division of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) responsible for administering the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).

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Hugoton Gas Field

Hugoton Gas Field is a large natural gas field in the U.S. states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

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Masterson, Texas

Masterson is an unincorporated community in southern Moore County, Texas, United States of the Texas Panhandle.

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Messer Group

The Messer Group GmbH is a supplier of industrial gases.

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Natural gas

Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.

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Noble gas

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Privatization

Privatization (rendered privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.

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Space Race

The Space Race (Космическая гонка) was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.

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Strategic natural gas reserve

A Strategic natural gas reserve is a government funded natural gas storage facility that holds long term stock piles of natural gas as compressed natural gas or liquefied natural gas in case of an emergency. National Helium Reserve and Strategic natural gas reserve are strategic reserves of the United States.

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Strategic reserve

A strategic reserve is the reserve of a commodity or items that is held back from normal use by governments, organisations, or businesses in pursuance of a particular strategy or to cope with unexpected events.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Bureau of Mines

For most of the 20th century, the United States Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Department of the Interior

The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources.

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See also

1925 establishments in the United States

Helium

Strategic reserves of the United States

United States Bureau of Mines

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve

Also known as Federal Helium Reserve, Helium Reserve.