# Australia's helium production returns to Yorke Peninsula

> Gold Hydrogen plans to build Australia's first helium plant in three years, aiming to ease a global shortage caused by Iranian strikes on Qatar.
- Title: Australia's helium production returns to Yorke Peninsula · Abc
- Summary: Gold Hydrogen plans to build Australia's first helium plant in three years, aiming to ease a global shortage caused by Iranian strikes on Qatar. Gold…
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- Source: Abc — https://abc.net.au/news/2026-10-21/commercial-helium-yorke-peninsula-gold-hydrogen/107291760
- Published: 2026-10-21T06:40:19+00:00
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- Topics: gold hydrogen, helium production, yorke peninsula, port vincent, australia, energy, ramsay 1, news, politics
## Gold Hydrogen plans commercial helium plant
Gold Hydrogen has announced plans for commercial helium production at its Yorke Peninsula site, three months after first extracting the gas at Ramsay 1 near Port Vincent.
## First Australian helium in three years
It would be the first helium production in Australia since Santos's Darwin LNG plant exhausted its supply in two thousand twenty-three.
## Global shortage after Qatar strikes
A global helium shortage developed after about a third of the world's supply was taken out by Iranian missile strikes on Qatar's Ras Laffan gas plant in March.
## Massive reserves at single permit
There is an estimated forty-one billion cubic feet of helium at just one of Gold Hydrogen's seven permits. The world consumes approximately five BCF of helium per year.
## Plant expected within eighteen months
A modular helium plant the size of two tennis courts will be constructed on the company's seventy-five thousand square kilometre Yorke Peninsula tenement, creating additional jobs for the region.

> Based on the robust numbers, not of just having the world's best helium purities ever reported, but all our geology and all the economics, we're very confident.
## Key takeaway

Gold Hydrogen will build Australia's first helium production plant since 2023 on the Yorke Peninsula within eighteen months, addressing a global shortage.