RE: AMMRL: No Known Helium Problems in East Central Illinois

From: Gibson, James <James.Gibson_at_momentive.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 19:50:59 +0000

I will report that we are having problems in the Albany, NY area. We ordered from Airgas for tomorrow, and as of last Friday (and still holds true today) that they had nothing for us, and that they would see if they could get it from an alternate supplier by this Friday. We are still being told this is up in the air.

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From: Olson, Dean [mailto:dolson_at_illinois.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 1:09 PM
To: ammrl_at_ammrl.org
Subject: AMMRL: No Known Helium Problems in East Central Illinois
Colleagues,
The helium problems noted in the Toronto area, plus the Boulder, CO, region are not happening here in Illinois.  We checked with both our vendors who receive helium from Linde, and both are at 100% allocation.  Let's hope the problems in Toronto and Boulder are local and temporary.
I did inform two reporters at Chemical and Engineering News about the pair of incidents.  If we are at the cusp of a "here we go again" scenario, we need to know now (and why).  However, a broad problem does not appear evident at this time - as far as I know.
Dean
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