A group of energy companies including Royal Dutch Shell and SASOL have leased the rights to a huge, gas-rich shale field in South Africa, where they plan to use hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas. So now, as we’ve seen in Pennsylvania, New York and the rest of the Marcellus Shale region, environmental groups and […]
Most people believe taxis, commercial vehicles, and mismanaged subsidies are the cause of Ghana’s massive LPG shortage, which is expected to last more than a year and cause a lot of suffering. However, the Minority in Parliament is now attributing the widespread shortage to the government’s deliberate interference at the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) and […]
Despite a strong push from African leaders for residents to heat, cook, and light their homes with propane, many are still using wood and kerosene, the Standard reported this week. Governments are touting the many benefits of propane, an undeniably cheaper and cleaner fuel in the long term. It’s associated with far less respiratory illness […]
With LPG shortages being felt in many parts of the world, many governments have been forced to implement various tactics to try to alleviate the problem. Not only is propane a common home heating fuel, in many places it’s better known as cooking gas and serves as a vital fuel for many everyday appliances. In […]
PetroSA, one of the world’s largest Gas-to-Liquids refineries, announced it will convert a percentage of its motor gasoline molecules to propane to alleviate South Africa’s burgeoning LPG shortage, the Times LIVE reported today. The Cape Town-based corporation is South Africa’s national oil company, and is primarily responsible for looking out for all industry-related concerns and […]
Representatives from the Canadian Propane Association recently met with Robert W.J. Ghiz, Premier of Prince Edward Island (PEI) to discuss ways the propane industry can contribute to Canada’s sustainable energy strategy, Digital Journal reported. “Propane is an important part of the clean energy mix,” said Jim Facette, President and CEO of the Canadian Propane Association, […]
One of the twisters ripping through Oklahoma on Tuesday badly damaged a Devon Energy Corp. natural gas processing plant, interrupting production for what could be several months, the Dow Jones Newswires reported. Despite the property damage, Devon employees counted themselves lucky, as no one was hurt at the facility. Workers were forewarned and camped out […]
Recent reports from the country of Nepal are pointing to a risky propane rip-off that has prompted mass confiscations of the cooking gas. The scam involves switching out the foot and neck rings on propane cylinders, according to the country’s Republica newspaper. And this has been a double whammy for customers: The new rings add […]
Propane prices have surged to record highs across Asia this week, after the Saudi state-owned oil company increased the price of the fuel, according to several reports. Stories out of South Korea and Pakistan are saying that Saudi Aramco raised the contract price on propane more than 14 cents a gallon this month, breaking the […]
This just in: the Propane.pro weekly roundup is here, looking at the week’s top stories in LPG. So what have we got? Natural gas liquids are being pumped from the ground at record high rates, the Department of Energy reports. But that doesn’t mean the total U.S. inventory is flush — this was one of […]