These vast expanses of liquid, however, are not water but hydrocarbons such as methane and ethane, forming seas, lakes, and ...

Despite a growing trade war between Washington and Beijing, China's ethane imports from the U.S. are set to surge this year as big petrochemical producers battling shrinking profits switch to the ...

As an example of an energy application, one such problem is the conversion of natural gas, methane, to a more readily transportable form such as methanol or ethane. Natural gas has a favourable ...