- "produce a lot of natural gas and hence helium" Right about gas, but it doesn't follow that they've invested in infrastructure to cryogenically separate heli

- "produce a lot of natural gas and hence helium" Right about gas, but it doesn't follow that they've invested in infrastructure to cryogenically separate helium from gas fields, the way they did with neon (at steel plants). (That was the colorful thing about the neon crisis: every country in the world has enormous neon resources; the list of countries that can produce industrial amounts on <6 months notice is short). I looked it up: Ukraine doesn't export any helium (as of 2019 public data), and it has helium production capacity but it's marginal. Algeria is world #3, behind the USA and Qatar. https://www.deutsche-rohstoffagentur.de/DE/Gemeinsames/Produkte/Downloads/DERA_Rohstoffinformationen/rohstoffinformationen-39_en.pdf https://www.deutsche-rohstoffagentur.de/DE/Gemeinsames/Produ... (pages 69 and 71)