Earlier this week, propane giant AmeriGas hosted its first-ever Amerifest in Optimist Park near its office in Laramie, Wyoming, the Laramie Boomerang reported. Besides drumming up interest in the company, AmeriGas officials said they wanted give back and do something for community members and local business. “It’s the first time (we) put it on. The […]
Dubai Civil Defense and Emirates Gas have teamed up to launch a campaign to educate propane consumers on awareness and safe usage, the Khaleej Times reported last week. As part of the program, the Dubai Municipality will send gas safety experts to 15,000 houses over the month of Ramadan to teach people with a direct, […]
Lakewood, Colorado is closing out summer with its third annual Chile Harvest Art Festival, an event celebrating the Spanish Colonial tradition of harvesting chile peppers, La Voz Bilingue reported. On August 27th and 28th they’ll be using propane grills to prepare the tasty peppers, but attendees can count on a mix of indigenous and modern […]
American Propane Gas Company, an Oklahoma-based propane appliance company that supplies everything from gas logs and heaters to fireplace inserts and grills, celebrated the Fourth of July weekend a bit early with ‘Open Flame,’ a patriotically-themed gourmet picnic this week, NewsOK.com reported. Organized in part by a group of Oklahoma City chefs, attendees sampled tasty […]
The first-ever FerrellGas Dream Factory Classic last week in Kansas City was a huge success, raising funds to support an organization dedicated to making dreams happen for critically and chronically ill children. The tournament drew 116 golfers from a dozen states and Canada – and raised $70,000 for the Dream Factory of Greater Kansas City. […]
FerrellGas held its second annual Refill-A-Thon on Saturday at its Batavia, NY location, the Batavian reported. The event enjoyed a strong turnout and was well received by local propane consumers. Batavia branch general manager Frank Nicolazzo said FerrellGas staff members were on hand to fill customers’ 20-pound gas grill tanks for just a $5 donation […]
This weekend, the country’s top propane players will gather in Atlanta for the Southeastern Convention & International Propane Expo. The event is billed as the world’s largest propane get-together, with thousands of attendees, an expo featuring some 200 exhibitors, along with training sessions and a golf tournament. The National Propane Gas Association (NPGA), the country’s […]
In a landmark discovery, a Virginia bio-tech firm named GreenGiant has successfully synthesized propane from prunes, calling the new bio-fuel “prune-pane.” The company says that its proprietary prune-based formula has the potential to generate propane at a fraction of the cost of conventional LPG, according to a report published this morning in Dried Fruit Monthly. […]
Ever heard the old phrase “propane is like a fine wine”? No? Get ready, because you may very well be hearing that kind of talk around the water cooler soon – propane is turning 100 years old next year and it just keeps getting better! To prepare for the 100th anniversary of the invention of […]
Tickets to the annual Burning Man festival, easily the biggest propane-using arts event in the world, went on sale last week. And the demand was bigger than an LPG-fueled mushroom cloud over the Nevada dessert. Eager ticket-buyers crashed the festival’s ticketing website in the first burst of sales, and more than 20,000 people bought tickets […]