RE:I'd be curious to know.. https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/beyond-balloons-saskatchewan-emerges-as-a-helium-hub-as-drilling-ramps-up
Can't get my link to work - the above article is dated March 3 and is a good all round read.
Here's some excerpts:
"The North American helium market has been upended in recent years after a 2013 law required the U.S. government to sell off its strategic helium reserve, which it has been maintaining in Amarillo, Tx. since the 1920s. The U.S. government is set to sell its last remaining helium stores by Sept. 2021 and the drain on that supply has turned the country into a net importer of the inert gas, which doesn’t combust and is used in MRI machines, to cool super conductors and as a purge gas for rocket ships."
"Not far from Royal Helium’s three wells, Calgary-based North American Helium Inc. plans to drill 15 wells targeting helium deposits in the southwest corner of Saskatchewan this year after the privately held company produced its first helium from the area in July 2020.
Last year, North American Helium raised $39 million for the construction of its second helium purification plant in the area, designed with the ability to process 160 thousand cubic feet per day of purified helium, which would make it the largest facility of its kind in Canada.
Similarly, Richmond, Va.-based Weil Group is currently producing small volumes of helium in both Alberta and Saskatchewan and operates a helium purification plant in southern Saskatchewan, where it reactivated old wells drilled in the 1960s and repurposed the wells to produce helium. The company, which bills itself as the first commercial-scale producer of helium in Saskatchewan, did not respond to a request for comment."