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HP Impact: HPImpact: Product specs, cost of transport stir natural gas markets
Natural gas is a hydrocarbon mixture primarily composed of methane with lesser amounts of other paraffin hydrocarbons, including ethane, propane and butanes. The value of natural gas lies in the combu..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Bottlenecks in materials, manpower delaying projects
Escalating construction costs throughout the LNG supply chain are threatening to crimp what has been a robust industry growth rate. "Sky-high costs have prompted a reassessment of project timelines an..
HP Impact: HPImpact: FTC study finds no price manipulation post-hurricanes
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) conducted an intensive, Congressionally mandated investigation into whether gasoline prices nationwide were manipulated or if price gouging was practiced in the a..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Industry execs weigh in on commodity pricing, other concerns
Energy executives are becoming increasingly concerned over the volatility of oil and gas commodity prices and declining reserves and say their firms will significantly boost upstream capital spending ..
HP Impact: HPImpact: OPEC votes to keep output flowing at same rate
Rejecting a call by host Venezuela for a cut in oil production, OPEC decided in its June meeting to maintain current production levels. In announcing the decision, OPEC members said that the world oil..
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  Summer energy price outlook Rising crude oil prices have slowed world petroleum demand growth, neverth..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Aromatics: global economics impact pricing trends
Worldwide, reforming accounts for 35% of benzene production; 20% is produced from toluene, of which 80% is reformate based. Nearly 87% of xylene production is extracted directly from reformate, and 10..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Imports still critical for Asia-Pacific aromatics markets
The state of the aromatics industry in Asia-Pacific was featured in a recent outlook by Bert de Guzman of DeWitt & Co. Assessing how long imports will prevail, he examined the region country-by-countr..
HP Impact: HPImpact: CO2 capture race highlight of European conference
Will Europe or the US build the first commercial gasification project to produce power from solid hydrocarbons and capture and store the CO2 underground? That question was posed at the European Gasifi..
HP Impact: HPImpact: New coal pricing policy in China off to lumpy start
Coal in China has had two types of prices since 1993. One is the market price, which applies to coal bought and sold in the market. The other is the price for coal that is used for power generation, w..
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