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United States Stove Company Acquires Newmac Manufacturing

United States Company has announced the acquisition of NewMac Manufacturing, a leading manufacturer of wood, oil, gas and pellet add-on furnaces, boilers furnaces and wood burning stoves, located in Debert, Nova Scotia, Canada. The addition of the NewMac Manufacturing product line represents the opportunity for United States Stove Company to further broaden its channels of international distribution and product offering; ...

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Webstone Sales Team Expands

Webstone continues to grow and once again has expanded its sales team responsible for developing new markets. Bill Colglazier has been promoted to lead this team as “Director of New Business Development”.  Webstone is also proud to welcome Larry Waldron as its new National Sales Manager.   Waldron brings a wealth of industry knowledge to Webstone with his many years of ...

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Tennessee Gas Pipeline Files Comments with the Massachusetts DPU Supporting Additional Natural Gas Supply Options

Tennessee Gas Pipeline, a Kinder Morgan company, has submitted a filing with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities supporting the DPU’s examination into the means by which new natural gas supply capacity may be added to the New England market, including providing a regulatory mechanism for Massachusetts electric distribution companies to contract for additional natural gas pipeline capacity to help ...

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PPA Joins Eastern Energy Expo

As previously announced, the National Association of Oil and Energy Service Professionals and the Atlantic Region Energy Expo will be partnering for a joint trade show next year at the Foxwoods Casino Resort in Ledyard, Conn. The name of the event will be the Eastern Energy Expo. This will be a much larger event and draw a varied audience. Additionally, ...

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Steve Dodge Promoted to Executive Director of API’s Massachusetts Petroleum Council

The American Petroleum Institute announced today that Steve Dodge has been promoted to executive director of the Massachusetts Petroleum Council (MPC); Dodge had previously served as associate director of MPC. “Steve has been a talented and respected advocate for the oil and natural gas industry in his 17 years of service with API,” said API Senior Director of State Government ...

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EIA: Hawaii and Vermont Set High Renewable Portfolio Standard Targets

Principal contributor: Cara Marcy Two states recently passed legislation that would require significant increases in renewable electricity generation. On June 8, Hawaii updated legislation setting a 100% renewable portfolio standard by 2045. On June 11, Vermont passed a bill creating a 75% RPS by 2032. Both of these RPS target percentages are higher than any other RPS target in the ...

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Slipstream Premium Marine Fuel to Power 200-Foot SSV Oliver Hazard Perry

Advanced Fuel Solutions, Inc. and Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island have announced a partnership to pair the largest civilian sailing school vessel in the U.S with its high quality marine fuel and more information on this is made available at McLeod Brock Law website which also offers other marine essentials information too. The newly constructed SSV Oliver Hazard Perry, a ...

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Gulf Fuel Retailing Returns to Canada through XTR Energy

Gulf Oil International has signed a long-term brand use license agreement with the Canadian XTR Energy Company Limited. The agreement was signed by Gulf Oil Vice President International, Frank Rutten and XTR President, Ken Wootton at the recent Le Mans 24 Hour race, and the partnership means the return of Gulf branded service stations to Canada, after an absence of ...

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My, How Things Have Changed

By Keith Reid I first started reporting on the petroleum industry in 1999. At that time, the conventional wisdom was fairly well established. The United States would never again be a major oil producer. Demand for refined products, particularly gasoline, would continue an inexorable increase. Conventional oil throughout the world would become scarce. Prices would continue to rise upward. That ...

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Heating Season Fuels Outlook Update

A significant development has occurred since we released last month’s Heating Season Fuels Outlook for 2014—a crack has appeared in OPEC’s price support wall. Historically, a lack of long-term discipline in OPEC was the order of the day for many years. Regardless of a commitment to hold prices at a certain level, invariably a member (often Venezuela) would decide to ...

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