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It was a relatively uneventful and rather warm heating season throughout much of the country, with sales of LPG gallons registering at comparatively modest levels. 'Everybody wanted to sell more [...]

Although the arrival of a brutal New England nor'easter can quickly alter the consensus, as of St. Patrick's Day, this past heating season was being widely viewed as relatively smooth [...]

Although propane retailers may be a little leery of what this year's winter will bring in the form of challenges and unforeseen circumstances, a feeling of confidence and competence appears [...]

Connecting customers with a correctly sized propane tank is a process containing several variables that retailers need to address. There is no set approach for setting a tank's appropriate volume [...]

Varying degrees of uncertainty over what winter will bring are routinely top-of-mind during the summer and fall propane-buildup periods, but the temperature has been turned up a notch for marketers [...]

Masks may be attracting much of the current face time in popular culture as the coronavirus outbreak sweeps across the country, but propane providers have long been utilizing the latest [...]

Michigan has surpassed California as the No. 1 purchaser of propane, according to the recently released Annual Retail Propane Sales Report, an account of the nation's gallons-sold details available from [...]

Home cooking and outdoor living served up a heightened COVID-19 reality for propane retailers throughout this year's winter heating season as customers stayed put and maintained social distancing. Sales of [...]

As the winter heating season shifted into the warmth of spring, a chilling sense of international uncertainty and foreboding was taking hold over the propane market. With the Russian invasion [...]

Supplying temporary heat can bring steady revenue to your business. And portable propane is not just for contractors dealing with cold working conditions. It also applies to short--or long-term emergency [...]

Marketers preparing for the winter heating season are becoming more mindful of propanes status as a global commodity, as overseas events are playing a larger role in domestic supply and [...]

There's no better method for heating up residential gallons than convincing your customers to install a propane furnace, and the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) offers an analysis and [...]

How are you ever going to keep them down on the farm after they've gotten a taste of the propane industry? Agricultural culture has long been a fertile field for [...]

Although this past heating season brought welcomed load not seen in recent years, propane marketers also faced an assortment of weather-related logistical challenges. There were record-setting levels of rain and [...]

Propane is making its mark at Maker's Mark, a top-shelf purveyor of fine Kentucky bourbon sold in a distinctive squarish bottle hand-sealed in bright red wax. Along with fueling an [...]

As Halloween approached, propane retailers were busy trying to avoid being spooked by looming challenges that threatened the heating season. The prospect of spiking prices and product shortages--most importantly new [...]

Deciding that in-person discussions and demonstrations are a far better route for effective marketing, Marshall Excelsior Co. (MEC) has deployed a customized van to take its sales presentations direct to [...]

Although the spot market could get iffy due to high levels of propane exports if sustained cold hits, industry experts are cautiously optimistic that propane providers will have enough winter [...]

Consistently shifting from a bygone role as wintertime order takers to assertive year-round marketers, propane's possibilities as a trending go-to fuel still depend upon the industry's ability to effectively spread [...]

From Florida to Maine and across the country to California, this year's heating season brought some rather calamitous climatic events amid varying levels of load, bottlenecks and short fills along [...]

If you're located in the vicinity of shale plays, landing an account at a hydraulic fracturing (fracking) site can be a lucrative strike drawing high-gallon propane purchases. Although waterless f [...]

Installing a propane generator to produce a reliable supply of standby electricity is fast becoming the new normal. Power outages have become more frequent while lasting for longer durations as [...]

Marketers are being advised to order customer-bound propane tanks as soon as possible due to a shortage of steel and other key commodities. Supply tightness also encompasses high demand for [...]

Propane's prominent place as a highly effective fuel for I disaster relief was enhanced by the industry's role in alleviating some of the misery associated with Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. [...]

Propane retailers are busy anticipating potential bottlenecks and finalizing winter business plans amid cautions of being caught off-guard and 'on thin ice' if severe weather conditions take hold. 'Two 'bad' [...]

A pilot project being conducted by multiple industry entities that links propane tankless hot water heaters with electrically powered heat pumps could bring better winter comfort and electric-bill savings to [...]

The winter heating season amounted to too little cold for too many propane marketers. This winter's heating season brought some dramatic weather extremes and an assortment of localized logistical challenges [...]

It takes a lot of grit to do concrete work, and propane is on the job from pouring to polishing. Some contractors own the equipment outright, while others economize by [...]

Depending on the amount of finishing provided, a given slab of concrete can serve as a rough pad surrounding a barbecue grill in the backyard or a stunningly exquisite lobby [...]

Whether the weather brings a brisk big-load winter heating season remains up in the air, of course, but government scientists are predicting nasty storms that could create infrastructural challenges for [...]

BY JAMES E. GUYETTE | CONTRIBUTING EDITOR As Easter approached and daffodils bloomed, the winter of 2015-16 was seemingly destined for the record books, to be filed as the warmest [...]

A race to establish market share is brewing among competing biopropane developers eager to commercialize a technology that is gaining support among global government policymakers and private sector entrepreneurs as [...]

Big-rig diesel drivers can achieve significant fuel-cost savings via add-on engine conversion systems that displace some of the diesel with propane by combining the two fuels inside the combustion chamber [...]

An incident involving ammonia contamination can create caustic consequences for your propane business. 'It can be a business killer, as the comprehensive cost of action and remediation is an immediate [...]

Although you might have a slightly differing viewpoint if you struggled with sporadic supply shortages, the overall consensus regarding this year's heating season is being described as 'smooth and steady.' [...]

Propane retailers can set aside extra propane for a rainy day, or perhaps more appropriately a snowy one, by filling customers' on-site tanks with more gallons than they typically draw [...]

An extra-wet fall corn crop, a Canadian railroad crew strike and other protests affecting propane shipments, and a sans-basketball form of coronavirus-induced March Madness bookended a comparatively mild winter heating [...]

Hoping to ease the trials and tribulations that beset last winter, propane providers are pulling out all of the stops to make a successful go at the coming cold weather. [...]

Something smells rotten to numerous propane providers, and it's not just the mercaptan odor that signals the presence of natural gas. Noses are out of joint and serious concerns are [...]

Industry-initiated adjustments to fire code regulations are expected to further stoke the cylinder exchange marketplace. An ambitious scientific study determined that the steel and aluminum cabinets currently in use are [...]

As the term polar vortex entered the nation's lexicon, many propane providers and their customers were wishing a pox on Pax and all other winter storms that put such a [...]

Apropane retailer in Pennsylvania is putting the pedal to the metal within the alternative motor fuels marketplace by dispensing compressed natural gas (CNG) along with autogas. 'I want to do [...]

With record levels of LP gas exports, plus pressure on the availability of rail tankers and truck transports due to the nation's heightened shale drilling activity, propane retailers are being [...]

Sowing the seeds of ditching diesel and making the switch to propane-powered irrigation engines is increasingly becoming a fertile field for propane marketers serving an agricultural clientele. Farmers using the [...]

Similar to propane's business model built on portable attributes, NG Advantage is delivering compressed natural gas (CNG) by the tankful from a natural gas compressing facility in Milton, Vt. NG [...]

As St. Patrick's Day was easing into a frosty Easter from Denver to Delaware, and Florida's spring-break revelers were greeted by 46-degree wind chills, many marketers were seeing green as [...]

The article focuses on propane retailers preparing for the upcoming 2023 winter heating season, highlighting their planning and consider factors such as business interruption insurance to ensure they can meet customer demand. Topics include the importance of maintaining robust inventory, monitoring supply chain disruptions, and addressing challenges such as driver shortages and unpredictable weather events.

Pitched as a safe and ecologically appropriate alternative to conventional fracking techniques, propane is the key ingredient in a patented waterless process being increasingly applied for extracting oil and natural [...]

When Punxsutawney Phil's distinguished top-hatted posse proclaimed that the famous prognosticating groundhog had indeed seen his shadow and thus there would be six more weeks of winter, Heather A. Haldeman [...]

Although they are popular in Europe and elsewhere around the globe, composite-constructed propane tanks have yet to catch on in the American cylinder marketplace. Safety concerns and higher cost appear [...]