Today, the Japanese national oil company (JOGMEC) announced it would send 461,000 barrels of propane from a national storage site to the hard-hit north of the country. The shipment, which comes on the orders of the trade ministry, is set for Monday, according to the news service Reuters. (UPDATE: Due to some bad math, the […]

The devastation from a recent earthquake and tsunami could cut Japanese demand for retail propane by three percent. But that decline will likely be off-set by an uptick in demand to power the electrical grid, reports the energy industry news site Platts. By the numbers, the country’s LPG observers expect the disaster to slice the […]

India, the second most populous country in the world, is making moves to expand the propane market in rural parts of the country. The gas, used primarily for cooking fuel, is sold predominantly in cities. But over the next two years, the Indian government plans to provide LPG connections to seven million rural homes, reports […]

Here’s a safe bet about the global propane market next year: Demand will be up. In the last week, headlines on four continents have pointed to a growing thirst for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). And it’s coming from a range of users, large and small. There’s a shortage of propane for Christmas cooking in Kenya, […]