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Superior Plus Corp. of Calgary, Canada has entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire Rochester, N. Y.-based Griffith Holdings Inc., a wholesale distributor of propane, fuel oil, and motor fuels, for $125 million.

Griffith has 27 branch locations, 26 bulk storage facilities, and three storage terminals providing 20 MMgal. of storage capacity. The company has about 400 delivery and

(Superior continued on page 18)

Superior to Acquire Griffith Holdings Inc.

Scientists Studying Hydrate Conversion

Nearly 95 percent of the known gas fields in the world are too small to justify the costs of piping the gas to a plant, turn it into a liquid, and then transport it on specially equipped tankers.

But a handful of researchers have an idea that could make these fields worth mining: Rather than figure out cheaper ways to transport this cleaner-burning energy source from point A to point B as a liquid, why not change natural gas into a solid substance that’s easier and cheaper to transport?

Japanese researchers Hajime Kanda at Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding in Tokyo and Yasuhara Nakajima of Japan’s National Maritime Research Institute think they’ve found a solution with the aid of hydrates, solid crystals in which natural gas -- composed chiefly of methane -- is caged inside water molecules.

For decades, researchers have been looking for ways to gather these crystals from their deep-ocean deposits and reap what they expect could be a natural gas harvest. Kanda and Nakajima are taking an opposite approach. Rather than extracting methane from hydrates, they want to turn methane into hydrates -- essentially transforming the colorless and odorless gas into small pellets that can be easily stored, transported and eventually turned back into natural gas. A few months ago Mitsui, in partnership with Osaka University, opened a demonstration plant near Tokyo to promote the concept and show that it works. If the

Propane Trade Group May Change Its

The U.S. propane industry enters a new decade facing a similar scenario: Its financial commitment to grow gallons has been significant over the last 10 years, but new data raises questions about the net results in the most critical market segment.

Despite long-term growth
in the number of propane
households from 1997-2007
and increases in combined
use (space heating, water
heating, cooking, drying)
gallons, new data shows a
significant decline in the
number of households using
propane as their primary

In what has become a can’t-win issue for Congress, the U.S. is trying to convince Mexico to rescind tariffs levied against the U.S. because of opposition to Mexican trucking. It’s the latest chapter in a story with more twists and turns than the Rio Grande itself.

In 2007, the Bush
Administration approved
a pilot program allowing
Mexican trucks to carry
freight farther north than just
the commercial border zone.

From day one, however, the
Teamsters and their business
allies fought the program tooth
and nail, claiming the Mexican
trucks were unsafe and taking
jobs away from U.S. trucking
companies.

Weary of the criticism, Congress last year dropped funding for the pilot program,

Mexico’s Tariff Move Nettles U.S. Traders

( Tariff continued on page 9)

(Scientists continued on page 8)

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