SASKATOON, SK, June 13,
2023 /CNW/ - Royal Helium Ltd. (TSXV: RHC) (OTCQB:
RHCCF) ("Royal" or the "Company") is pleased to
announce that it has awarded the remaining site installation
contracts for the Steveville helium processing facility. Vise
Energy Services of Lacombe,
Alberta has been selected as the lead Mechanical contractor
with Medallion Energy Services of Grande
Prairie, Alberta as lead Electrical and Instrumentation
contractor.
Royal has already contracted Broersen Construction of
Brooks, Alberta and DFI Piling of
Edmonton, Alberta for the lease
construction and civil works, which is nearing completion, and
ready for the delivery of the 5 main process skids and 6 minor
skids by Rangeland Trucking and Cranes of Airdrie, AB.
Also well underway, Campus Energy Partners of Calgary, Alberta have been contracted to
provide engineering, procurement, construction and management for
the midstream pipeline services. To date, the 12-12 well to
facility pipeline ("South Pipeline") has been completed and the
10-22 well to facility pipeline ("North Pipeline") has been tested
and nears completion.
John Styles, Royal's lead
engineer comments, "The Steveville Facility fabrication and
construction project is on track to be completed and onstream in Q3
of this year. We, along with Obsidian Engineering are very pleased
with the coordinated effort and quality of the preparation and
construction work at site which will be ongoing through July to be
followed by Arjae and contractors Vise and Medallion to commission
and startup the plant."
Steveville Helium Processing
Plant
The Steveville plant is designed to process 15,000,000 cubic
feet/day of raw gas fed by the two 100% owned helium wells at
Steveville, Alberta and produce
22,000 mcf of 99.999% helium per year. The engineered life of the
plant is 25 years while both wells are expected to remain on stream
for a minimum of 9 years. The plant will also produce enough fuel
gas to power the plant and up to 22,000,000 pounds of commercial
CO2, which provides for a potentially significant secondary cash
flow stream to Royal.
About Royal Helium Ltd.
Royal is an exploration, production and infrastructure company
with a primary focus on the development and production of helium
and associated gases. The Company controls over 1,000,000
acres of prospective helium permits and leases across southern
Saskatchewan and southeastern
Alberta. Given the current and
foreseeable global undersupplied nature of this critical and
non-renewable product, Royal is well positioned to be a leading
North American producer of this increasingly high value
commodity.
Royal's helium reservoirs are carried primarily with nitrogen.
Nitrogen is not considered a greenhouse gas (GHG) and therefore has
a low GHG footprint when compared to other jurisdictions that rely
on large scale natural gas production for helium extraction. Helium
extracted from wells in Saskatchewan and Alberta can be up to 90% less carbon intensive
than helium extraction processes in other jurisdictions.
Andrew Davidson,
President and Chief Executive Officer
Royal Helium
Ltd.
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SOURCE Royal Helium Ltd.