It also sells propane and propane-related products and services to residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural customers.
Even though natural-gas prices are slumping, drilling for gas also yields valuable liquids such as butane and propane.
Oh, and stop burning the meat with cheap briquettes and propane, last time I ordered a steak over there it was burned black on the outside and completely raw and cold on the inside.
Like Chesapeake, Range Resources is reducing its number of rigs in the northeast gas-rich portion of Marcellus next year, from 4 rigs to 1, with a refocus of capital on liquids-rich (ethane and propane) and oil projects.
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Inergy L.P. (NRGY), an owner and operator of retail and wholesale propane supply, marketing and distribution businesses, is another example of MLP pain.
You have exploration and production companies, marine transportation, and then propane companies.
Fractionators take a mixed stream of natural gas liquids (the liquid stuff that comes out of the ground along with natural gas) and process it into pure products like ethane, propane and butane.
Instead of swapping Beanie Babies and baseball cards, Altra's customers trade thousands of gallons of propane and butane at a shot.
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The firm also owns 21 gas processing plants that separate propane and ethane from raw natural gas.
We never use propane and we only use briquettes to start the fire.
All four froze, but they beat the blaze and thawed the frozen pumps, valves and fittings with propane heaters.
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Propane and ethane, which are emitted by the burning of natural gas and other sources, have not declined as quickly.
Ethylene can be made from crude oil or the heavier gases that come out of natural gas wells (ethane, propane and butane).
He began making regular visits to the camp with loads of firewood, propane and other supplies to be divvied up among the residents.
Some natural gas MLPs separate out liquids like propane and butane that compete against petroleum-based products like naphtha in the industrial chemicals market.
But today, companies with access to feed stocks that are associated with the production of natural gas, such as propane and ethane, will see a boost in their performance.
In Yerevan, Armenia, where I was last May, I noticed buses and lorries resplendent with rusty-looking cylinders of gas as their fuel supply, which is more cheaply obtained than liquid fuels, but I emphasise that it is petroleum gas (mainly propane and butane) that is used there and not biogas.
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At the clinics VillageReach supplied and installed refrigerators to prevent spoilage and lights powered by propane.
Fortunately it costs about the same as a better quality backyard propane grill and is an affordable luxury.
Nor was it the silvery inflated sphere, ten storeys high and fitted with giant propane burners, in which in 2002 he had made the first solo circumnavigation of the globe by balloon.
According to a statement this morning, the assets sold are currently generating production volumes of 21, 000 barrels per day of liquids (oil plus NGLs like propane) and 90 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.
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Visit Albuquerque in the late summer or early fall and you are bound to see and smell chiles rotating in grated steel barrels over propane flames to loosen the skin and bring out the flavour.
Koch is among the world's largest oil traders, the third-largest in natural gas, and makes markets in dozens of commodities like propane, ammonia, coal, electric power and weather.
The ultimate buyers of the propane were households and businesses, including many poor rural families living in trailer homes.
As I lit the small propane camp stove and set about my preparations, I warily eyed a small skunk that seemed bent on keeping me company.
OsComp Systems, a privately held start-up company based in Houston, Texas, wants to distribute natural gas the way that propane is distributed and has pioneered a compressor technology that it claims will allow it to do so.
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An explosion at a BP oil refinery in Texas in 2005 that killed 15 workers, a series of other safety concerns and allegations that the company fixed propane prices have battered its reputation in America.
They set the price high and they withheld a certain amount of propane from the market, allegedly.
Fossett will use a bigger balloon this time, and control its altitude by working a propane ethane burner.
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