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Air Products
American industrial gas and hydrogen infrastructure company (NYSE: APD, HQ Allentown PA; ~$12B revenue); world's 3rd-largest industrial gas company and the leading investor in large-scale green hydrogen projects globally. Air Products produces industrial gases (oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, helium) globally and is the operator of several major helium liquefaction plants (including facilities in Wyoming and internationally). Air Products' NEOM clean hydrogen project in Saudi Arabia (joint venture with ACWA Power and NEOM company) — the world's largest planned green hydrogen production facility — will produce green hydrogen (from solar/wind electrolysis) exported as ammonia and ultimately reconverted to hydrogen in global markets. Air Products is the one major industrial gas company most committed to the 'hydrogen economy' vision — its CEO Seifi Ghasemi has publicly stated that Air Products would transform from an industrial gas company into a clean hydrogen infrastructure company. The same company that provides helium to hospital MRI machines is simultaneously building the largest green hydrogen plant on Earth in the Saudi desert.
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What they make
8 inputs Air Products supplies
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mineral
Semiconductor-Grade Helium (6N) →
mineral
Liquid nitrogen (helium pre-cooling) →
manufactured
Cryogenic cold boxes and heat exchangers →
chemical
Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF₆) — Electrical Insulating Gas →
chemical
Industrial CO2 (Stunning & MAP Packaging) →
chemical
Xenon Gas — Space Propulsion & Electronic Grade →
chemical
Krypton Gas — Satellite Propulsion & Insulating Glass →
chemical
Helium (Grade 5.0 / Fiber-Drawing Grade) →
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Goods downstream
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Where they make it
6 facilities
Air Products - US Operations →
USMultiple US production facilities; food-grade CO2 supply for meat processing including pork stunning and MAP packaging
Air Products Helium 1 — Ras Laffan, Qatar →
QARas Laffan Industrial City, Qatar · manufacturing
Air Products operates the world's largest single helium liquefaction plant (Helium 1) at Ras Laffan under contract with QatarEnergy. Capacity ~0.84 Bcf/yr. Air Products ships ISO containers of liquid helium from Ras Laffan to semiconductor fab customers globally. This is the largest single chokepoint for global helium supply; Air Products is contractually bound to Qatar until the 2030s.
Air Products Port Arthur Hydrogen Plant →
USTexas · Steam Methane Reformer (SMR)
Two SMR hydrogen units at Valero Port Arthur Refinery. Flagship blue hydrogen/CCS demonstration; DOE-funded pilot captured ~1 million tonnes CO2. Commissioned 2000 and 2006.
Air Products – Doe Canyon Helium Plant (Dolores County, Colorado) →
USColorado
Air Products helium extraction facility in Dolores County, Colorado; produces Grade-A helium from helium-rich local natural gas. One of several Air Products US helium source plants alongside Liberal, Kansas. Feeds the Air Products global helium distribution network serving semiconductor and fiber optic customers.
Denbury/ExxonMobil – Jackson Dome CO2 Field (Mississippi) →
USMississippi
Jackson Dome volcanic CO2 reservoir in central Mississippi — the largest natural CO2 source in the eastern United States. Geologically trapped CO2 of volcanic origin (not combustion byproduct); exceptionally pure (>95% CO2). Historically operated by Denbury Resources; Denbury acquired by ExxonMobil in November 2023 for $4.9B as part of ExxonMobil's carbon capture strategy. The Jackson Dome CO2 was historically the backbone of US food-grade CO2 supply in the Southeast before being increasingly allocated to Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) in Mississippi and Alabama oil fields. ExxonMobil's acquisition of Denbury reframes Jackson Dome as CCS infrastructure rather than food supply — creating long-term competition between food industry CO2 needs and EOR/CCS uses for the same geologic resource. Note: Facility company_id set to air-products as a placeholder — the actual owner is ExxonMobil via Denbury; no facility edge linked since ownership structure differs from distributor.
US Federal Helium Reserve (Cliffside Field, TX) →
USCliffside, Potter County, Texas · other
US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Federal Helium Program reserve. The Cliffside field near Amarillo, TX was the world's largest helium storage reservoir; depleted significantly over decades. BLM privatized helium operations in 2023 per the Helium Stewardship Act. As of 2024 the reserve is largely depleted; final BLM helium auction completed in 2024. This ends the US federal backstop for helium supply — making Qatar and Australia the primary strategic sources.
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Americas Industrial Gases
35%Hydrogen (Industrial + Clean Energy)
35%Asia Industrial Gases
20%Middle East & India / LNG Technology
10%
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Did you know2023
ExxonMobil acquired Denbury Resources — operator of the Jackson Dome natural CO2 wells in Mississippi, the largest natural CO2 source in the eastern US — for $4.9 billion in November 2023. ExxonMobil's stated rationale was to use Denbury's CO2 pipeline infrastructure for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) — i.e., to store captured industrial CO2 in geological formations rather than release it to atmosphere. This creates a direct conflict: the CO2 that previously went to food processing (carbonation, dry ice, modified atmosphere packaging) now competes with CO2 from industrial capture being stored underground. A petroleum company acquired a critical food supply infrastructure asset (natural CO2 wells) and is converting it from "CO2 source for food industry" to "CO2 sink for carbon capture." The food industry's future access to Jackson Dome CO2 is now subordinate to ExxonMobil's CCUS business objectives.
ExxonMobil ↗Origin2023
Air Products and Chemicals was founded in 1940 by Leonard Pool in Detroit — with the innovation of renting oxygen generation equipment to steel mills on a take-or-pay contract rather than selling cylinders. Pool's insight was that if a steel mill needed oxygen continuously, it was more economical to install an oxygen plant at the mill rather than deliver cylinders. The on-site or pipeline gas supply model Pool invented in 1940 became the standard business model for the entire industrial gas industry globally — Linde, Air Liquide, and Praxair (now Linde) all adopted the same model. Air Products grew from a Detroit oxygen rental company to a global industrial gas conglomerate. Current CEO Seifi Ghasemi (appointed 2014) has shifted the company toward a second transformation: exiting many commodity industrial gas businesses to focus exclusively on large-scale hydrogen infrastructure investment — allocating ~USD 15B to green and blue hydrogen projects including the NEOM 4GW Saudi Arabia green hydrogen plant, the world's largest planned green hydrogen facility.
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. ↗