For the past seven years, the propane industry coalition Pros4Care has teamed up with the Prostate Cancer Foundation to host a charity event that raises funds and awareness for a disease that many in the propane industry have battled. Pros4Care is an initiative that Ed Varney of Emerson Process Management and former LP Gas Editor Pat Hyland, now of the... read more
Western propane purveyors are leveraging the benefits of securing an enhanced and handy supply of LP gas by patronizing a vast new underground storage facility in central Utah. With a capacity of 500,000 barrels of propane stored in giant salt caverns rivaling the size of skyscrapers, the just-opened Magnum NGLs site is already filled to the brim and sold out... read more
Sunoco Logistics Partners LP announced a successful open season for Sunoco Pipeline LP’s $2.5 billion Mariner East 2 project, the second phase of the company’s broader plan to provide critical pipeline transportation from the Marcellus and Utica shales. Mariner East 2 will expand the Mariner East service to deliver natural gas liquids (NGLs), including propane, from the liquid-rich shale areas... read more
Alkane Truck Co.’s Class 7 cab-over truck platform is engineered to run on propane autogas. The truck is available in two models – the 33,000-pound P-33 and the 26,000-pound P-26 – and features a 6.8-liter Ford Triton V-10 engine that was modified to run on gaseous fuel. The fuel system is direct-injection, liquid-propane technology from Bi-Phase Technologies LLC. According to... read more
Oneok Partners LP announced the completion of more than $500 million in capital-growth projects. Included among them is the expansion of the Bakken Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Pipeline, which increases the capacity to 135,000 barrels per day (bpd) from 60,000 bpd. The 600-mile pipeline transports unfractionated NGLs from the Bakken Shale in the Williston Basin to the partnership’s 50 percent-owned... read more
NuStar Energy LP and PMI, an affiliate of Pemex, plan to develop new pipeline infrastructure to transport liquefied petroleum gases and refined products from the United States into northern Mexico to meet the region’s growing demand for these products. Under the proposal, the companies will jointly fund construction of new pipeline and storage assets, and NuStar would manage their construction... read more
Cargas Systems, maker of Cargas Energy software for fuel delivery and service companies, promoted three employees within its Energy business division. Aaron Cargas was named director of Product & Marketing, a position that will expand his leadership role in product development to include marketing management. Sim Santos was appointed director of Professional Services and will now assume leadership of Cargas’... read more
In the Know is a monthly partnership between LP Gas magazine and Propane Resources. Our focus this month is on communication, addressed by supply and risk management expert Pat Thornton. Q. With the heating season under way, how can propane retailers communicate effectively with their customers, especially if supply challenges happen to develop? A. January and February 2014 presented a... read more
CHS Inc. is nearing completion of a new propane rail terminal in Hixton, Wis. The terminal will be completed in time to meet demand for the upcoming heating season, CHS says. According to a press release, CHS owns the terminal and Federation Cooperative of Black River Falls, Wis., operates it. The terminal will initially have 360,000 gallons of storage, the... read more
Would you allow a group of college students to analyze some of the more intimate details of your business? Metsa did, and one company official says it’s reaping the benefits. As part of an entrepreneurial growth project within the master’s of business administration curriculum at The University of Texas at Austin, six students spent the spring semester deciphering ways the... read more
