Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has signed a long-term agreement for the purchase of liquid helium from Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA (PGNiG), a leader in the Polish natural-gas market, as well as the only producer of helium in Central Europe.
PGNiG owns and operates a helium production facility located in Poland that extracts and refines helium from gas produced by its domestic natural-gas fields. The company has been consistently producing helium from this plant for supply to the global market since the late 1970’s.