Noble Helium Mobilizes Drilling Rig for October Exploration at Kinambo in Tanzania
Noble Helium Ltd (ASX:NHE, OTC:NBHEF) has begun mobilizing a drilling rig to the Kinambo site in Tanzania as part of its 2026 helium exploration campaign. The company expects to spud the Kinambo-1 well in early October after completing all necessary preparations and transporting equipment from Kenya. Schlumberger (SLB) will provide downhole logging, sampling, and data collection services for the project. The drilling program aims to test the western margin of the North Rukwa Project, where preliminary assessments suggest helium volumes could reach up to 225.5 billion cubic feet on a mean-case basis. Noble Helium's executive chair, Dennis Donald, emphasized that this campaign is potentially transformative and may allow results from Kinambo-1 to be extrapolated across the larger eastern margin of North Rukwa. Noble Helium operates within Tanzania’s East African Rift System and aims to establish a geopolitically independent helium supply. The company highlighted growing demand for helium in emerging technologies such as AI infrastructure, advanced computing, and nuclear fusion research.
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