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Featuresgasworld at 200: A mission statement reinvigorated
Global Managing Editor Rob Cockerill reflects on a milestone for gasworld – and the sense of change in the industry across the timeframe of 200 issues.
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gasworld at 200: Truly informing…
Bill Kroll, Chairman Emeritus of MATHESON & TNS, and member of the gasworld Editorial Advisory Board, reflects on a milestone for gasworld magazine and the gases industry as a whole.
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Short and long-term solutions to the gas crunch
Slava Kiryushin, Global Head of Energy at DWF, shares his views on the gas crunch that threatens industry in UK, Europe and other parts of the world.
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The Covid-19 oxygen crisis, Part 10
Could we say our oxygen needs were all being met? How prepared were we to deal with Covid-19, and how prepared will we be in future? Is it now time for a global estimate of the number of deaths attributable to lack of access to medical oxygen? These were all ...
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Decarbonisation: Plan now or pay later
As COP26 gets underway in Glasgow, Ian Hibbitt, Business Development Manager for Industrial Decarbonisation & Applications at BOC UK & Ireland, explains why industry must prepare for net zero today.
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A succession change like no other?
The announcement yesterday that Sanjiv Lamba will succeed Steve Angel as CEO of Linde plc is an interesting development on so many levels, writes gasworld’s Rob Cockerill.
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COP26 – hydrogen, carbon dioxide, methane and more
As the clock ticks down to COP26 next month, Stephen B. Harrison explores how an exponential trajectory calls for urgent action – and how there will be far reaching implications for industrial gases and energy gases.
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CO2: Crisis averted…for now?
A week can be a long time in the CO2 business, and yet it feels as though the ups and downs of the last seven days have flown by.
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CO2: Why the UK Govt had to subsidise fertiliser production
No sooner had it started, it appears to be almost over. Was this the shortest-lived CO2 ‘crisis’ yet?
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Every breath counts – right now, every stakeholder counts too
gasworld Global Managing Editor Rob Cockerill reflects on the significance of recent breakthrough medical oxygen agreements, the many questions these raise for the industry and the biggest question of all – where are all the other companies that are still to commit?
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Oxygen: Preparedness vs unpredictability
One has to wonder when we’ll see the end of these devastating stories of Covid waves and resulting oxygen supply that seems to ebb more than it flows, at least on the face of it.
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One point for creativity, two points for plagiarism
It is not unusual for an atmospheric/industrial gas supplier to provide bulk, microbulk or packaged medical grade oxygen to the healthcare industry. Successively, many independent gas distributors supplying medical oxygen have experienced a demand surge with the pandemic.
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Swept off our feet by India’s Covid crisis
With India kicking off the world’s most extensive vaccination program on 16th January 2021 and the total number of active Covid-19 cases around 150,000 and daily cases just over 10,000, the mood was upbeat. Life was slowly but surely coming back to normal. And then, like a bolt from the ...
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Writing new chapters in Europe
Rob Cockerill reflects on the changing outlook for the European industrial gases business, against a backdrop of decarbonisation, digitisation and a divergence in local landscapes.
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India: A call to arms in oxygen supply and distribution
Just weeks ago, we saw the positive announcement of eight new ASUs to be constructed in India, and now a product of air separation – oxygen – is in the headlines in India for all the wrong reasons, writes Rob Cockerill
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Reminders of the helium supply chain complexities
Rob Cockerill reflects on an interesting quarter for helium in his latest column for gasworld.
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All set for the new world of conferencing
In her regular column for gasworld, Ellen Daniels, Chief Executive of the British Compressed Gases Association (BCGA) sets out plans for the national trade body’s move to a digital world for its annual conference.
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All about recognition
It now seems an age away, when, in my last column for gasworld, I spoke of my wish for a Brexit deal. FortunateIy, a Trade and Co-operation Agreement was struck between the UK and the EU on the eve of the festive season, and while time will tell how that ...
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Implementing e-commerce systems
It seems that almost every article in the e-commerce space references or touches on the impact of Amazon, and for good reason. It is now the largest e-commerce company in the world and largest retailer by market capitalisation.
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Out of uncertainty comes opportunity
Refinery operators were already facing mounting challenges in 2019: declining demand for gasoline and diesel in some markets, new and very efficient capacity coming on-stream and increasing regulatory requirements, to name a few. Then, 2020 brought even more difficulties with the unprecedented challenges to operations brought on by the Covid-19 ...
