0 a gas with no smell or colour that burns easily and is found in natural gas and petroleum --
1 a gas with no smell or color, which burns easily and is found in natural gas and petroleum --
They range from specifications containing methane with a small proportion of ethane to ethane with a fairly substantial proportion of propane.
The pricing of ethane from the gas-gathering pipeline is a matter for commercial negotiation.
I agree that the present rules cannot be justified in view of the special technical difficulties which exist in the case of ethane.
Does it include ethane, propane, butane and methane, for example?
It is only methane and ethane which are what one may call the permanent gases, which would not be liquified simply by pressure alone.
There may be some methane and ethane left over at the end.
It estimates that by 1990–91 a total of 3,398,000 tonnes could be expected, of which 1,325,000 tonnes would be ethane.
But it cannot be by unfairly treating a tax-paying company that submits that the present valuations for ethane are inappropriate.
