The High Horsepower (HHP) Summit 2013 commenced with pre-conference tours on Monday, September 16 at the Caterpillar Lafayette Engine Center in Lafayette, Indiana, and the Electro-Motive Diesel LaGrange Engine Facility in LaGrange, Illinois. As the windy city became the rainy city,...
Historically LNG has been shipped in large liquefied natural gas carriers (LNGC) with capacities of up to 260,000 cubic meters (cbm) over long distances from gas rich countries to developed countries. The rules and regulations surrounding ships built for this purpose...
From the First-Timers Reception held on Sunday afternoon to the President’s Gala that closed the convention on Wednesday evening, the GAWDA 2013 Annual Convention drew together vendors and distributors of gases and welding equipment from across the country to...
Cryostar’s involvement in liquefied natural gas and liquefied-compressed natural gas (LNG/LCNG) fueling stations for vehicles began almost a decade ago. Today, opportunities in the LNG supply chain are growing, and in May of 2013 Cryostar launched its latest LNG fueling station...
Announcements of domestic air separation unit builds during 2012 through 2015 indicate that it will be a busy few years for the US air gases business. This is a welcome change from earlier in the decade when economic recessions only...
For many readers of CryoGas International, Chart Industries, Inc. (chartindustries.com) is synonymous with the atmospheric gas industry through the design and manufacture of brazed aluminum heat exchangers (BAHX). These are used at various stages during the cryogenic air separation process, together with...
The worldwide helium market continues to be marked by uncertainty. The future of the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) helium reservoir remains undecided and is awaiting legislation that will determine its role, as new sources of helium are...
There is approximately 6.2 billion cubic feet of helium gas consumed per year worldwide for use in all market segments with demand increasing by about two percent annually into the near future. From this total consumption, approximately five percent,...
The founder of Weldcoa, Richard Bennett, invented the Sur-Loc™ Pallet in the late 1960s. Since that time the Weldcoa Palletized Process has evolved from an external delivery system, through the use of pallet trucks and trailers, to an...
This past August, in the high desert of eastern Utah, the country’s first helium-only gas well on federal lands was drilled and completed at Harley Dome. The well, the Flatirons Federal 4-1, was completed in the Entrada Sandstone...
