Regional analysis
Regional Markets: Global Update Subscription
According to Spiritus Consulting, the global market for industrial gas, equipment and related services reached a value of around $72bn in 2011, compared to its worth of approximately $66bn in 2010. This was achieved despite an apparent tail-off in industrial growth from Q1 (2011) toward Q4.
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Regional Markets: Focus on Middle East Subscription
Speaking of the region broadly, it’s clear that the Middle East is developing into one of the most vibrant industrial gas markets in the world. For the purposes of this analysis, we’re homing in on the GCC states and focusing on Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in particular.
Regional Markets: Focus on Western Europe Subscription
Ascending from Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland and across the Baltic Sea, our regional focus this month lies in Scandinavia.
Regional Markets – Focus on: BRICs Subscription
When it comes to global growth projections, now is probably a good time to look at the BRIC’s. At a time when global activity has weakened, credit risks are rising and a fear of the unknown continues to grow, some solace can at least be found in the developing and emerging economies.
Regional Markets: Focus on Middle East Subscription
The Middle East: For decades, home to the riches of the world’s oil dependence; for years, courted by the industrial gases business as the next big region of opportunity. Growth of around $500m in the Middle East gases industry since 2007 underlines this potential.
Regional Markets: Focus on China Subscription
It has been clear for years that the China gases business would be at the forefront of the global industrial gas industry going forward. Here, we explore how this was emphasised so strongly in 2010 and look at what we might come to expect in the next few years.
Regional Markets: Focus on South Pacific Rim Subscription
The South Pacific Rim market is in the spotlight once again this month, dominated by the gas markets of Australia and New Zealand. But what developments have we seen in the past year? What’s going on in the world of gases in the South Pacific?
Regional Markets: Focus on Japan Subscription
The Gas Review's Izumi Ohe describes the position that the Japanese gases business currently finds itself in, as well as explaining the recovery effort underway in the country's northeast following the earthquake and tsunami of six months ago.
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Regional Markets: Focus on North Pacific Subscription
It’s almost impossible to discuss the gas markets of the North Pacific, and Taiwan in particular, without some spotlight on the electronics business; such is the symbiotic relationship between the two.
Regional Markets: Focus on Asia-Pacific Subscription
The current value of the Asia-Pacific gases business perhaps belies the strength of interest from the gas and equipment community itself in 2011, if gasworld’s observations are anything to go by.
Regional Markets: Focus on Africa Subscription
As one of the so-called developing economies, Africa is embedded in the hopes and expectations of future gases growth.
Regional Markets: Focus on Latin America Subscription
With gasworld’s Latin American Industrial Gases Conference 2011 looming large on the horizon, what better time to explore the dynamics of a buoyant South & Central American gases business in 2010?
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Equipment in the LNG supply chain Subscription
With the increasing opportunities being discovered in the LNG distribution chain, Cryostar’s Philippe Heisch offers an insight into the equipment deployed in the LNG supply sector - and why.
Interviews
10 minutes more with... Sylvie Villepontoux Subscription
Spend 10 minutes more with Sylvie Villepontoux and see what else the Managing Director of Air Liquide UK had to say about the future of the gases business both in the UK and globally, issues close to the heart of the BCGA, and even the last book she read.
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Natural gas – Essential, everyday but unpredictable Subscription
Used in heating, cooking and electricity production, many facets of modern life could not exist without the fossil fuel natural gas.
