Amid ongoing attention to AI, global conflict, energy poverty, and permit reform, public focus often defaults to oil markets. While understandable, this reveals a problematic trend affecting not only ...

Natural gas—one of the planet's most abundant energy sources—is primarily composed of methane, ethane, and propane. While it is widely burned for energy, producing greenhouse gas emissions, scientists ...

Position-specific isotope analysis (PSIA) is a technique that measures the isotope composition of a certain position in a molecule. It can provide valuable information of the formation mechanisms of a ...

According to a 2019 US Energy Information Administration (EIA) study, 510 natural gas processing plants operate in the United States. This amounts to around 80.8 billion cubic feet of processing power ...

A case study determined that a refinery can potentially recover approximately 1,500 b/d or $2.6 million/year of additional propane in the saturate gas plant. This includes 800 b/d ($1.4 million/year) ...

Hot vents in the deep sea are home to microbes that feed on ethane. Now researchers have succeeded in finding an important component in the microbial conversion of the gas. They were able to decode ...