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Australia is the world’s second-largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, shipping approximately 80 to 82 million metric tonnes annually. It operates just behind the US, which holds the top spot, and marginally ahead of Qatar.
Yet curiously, unlike the strong ties that bind LNG and helium in the US and Qatar, Australia is not a force in helium.
Its only production plant, a BOC facility in Darwin, when the helium-rich Bayu-Undan gas field depleted. Presently any helium extracted as part of LNG mining is released in tail gases and into the atmosphere, never to be recovered.
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