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NewsFurther oxygen support sent to the Amazon region
More than $200,000 in concentrated oxygen and personal oxygen concentrator devices have been sent to the Amazon regions of Brazil and Peru to help the fight against Covid-19.
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Peru: An oxygen market in focus
As Peru soars up the unwanted pecking order of those countries so severely hit by the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and scenes describe a chronic lack of oxygen supply, gas world looks at the make-up of the country’s gases business, with data from gas world Business Intelligence.
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Peru coronavirus crisis deepens: oxygen in focus
The covid-19 (coronavirus) crisis continues to deepen in Peru, where gasworld understands there is a significant supply shortage of oxygen and individuals have been pictured taking supply into their own hands.
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Focus on South America
The industrial gases market after the Linde-Praxair merger facing slow economic growth, writes Eduardo Pelitti.
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Regional markets – Focus on South America
One of the region’s thought to be a point of contention in the proposed merger of equals of Praxair, Inc. and Linde AG is South America. This is also a region in the headlines of late for its economic struggles, with President Trump’s newly announced trade tariff (25%) on steel ...
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Flesan Energía awarded power generation contract
Okra Energy has awarded the power generation contract for Peru’s first small-scale natural gas liquefaction (ssLNG) facility to Flesan Energía SAC, independent power production (IPP) specialists in end-user gas power generation solutions.
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Peru’s first small-scale LNG facility nears completion
Okra Energy has announced it has installed Peru’s first small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility to support increasing energy demands of developing countries with little or no pipeline infrastructure.
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Peru LNG shipments rise
Peru’s only liquefaction facility shipped one more cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year.
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Okra Energy acquires Cryogas
Okra Energy has acquired Cryogas, a Peruvian company specialising in the transportation and storage of liquefied natural gas (LNG), as well as the installation of satellite regasification plants.
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Features
Regional markets – Focus on South America
Rewind 12 months and with China’s once rampant growth in check, South and Central America’s emerging economies were coming into view for those geared around going where the growth is. One year on, and it is thought that the Chinese economy has stabilised, while the effects of President Trump’s arrival ...
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Praxair starts up H2 plant in Peru
Praxair, Inc. has started up a new hydrogen (H 2 ) plant at Repsol’s La Pampilla Refinery in the Callao district near Lima, Peru, reinforcing its leading market position in the South American country.
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Regional markets – Focus on South America
The troubled economies of South America are facing another year of trade and fiscal uncertainty, if various informed projections are realised over the next 12 months. Latin American and Caribbean economies contracted 0.4% on average in 2015, according to figures from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ...
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The industrial gas world in 2016 – Part 1
As 2015 draws to a close, gas world looks ahead at what projects, plants and developments we can expect to see in the industrial gas business in 2016. Here we focus on projects in the Americas.
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Praxair expands in Peru with Tecnogas acquisition
A local producer and distributor of CO 2 and industrial gases in the South American country, Praxair has acquired a company with a rich history of serving the market for over 50 years.
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Regional markets: Focus on South America
This month our regional focus is on South America, a region long considered one of the emerging industrial gas markets but arguably in the shadow of fellow developing gas hubs, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.
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Italy’s Oerlikon’s Drive Systems expands into South America
The company has appointed four new distributors to further strengthen its presence in the continent with locations in Argentina, Chile. Columbia and Peru created to support the agricultural, construction, mining and energy sectors.
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Praxair signs Peru hydrogen deal
Praxair announced it has signed a long-term contract to provide hydrogen to Repsol, one of the world’s largest producers of petrochemicals. The new steam methane reformer (SMR) will be constructed at Repsol’s La Pampilla Refinery, in the Callao district, near Lima, and is expected to start up in 2016.
