LPGas.org is an online information and resource center for liquefied petroleum gas; also known as LPG, GLP, natural gas liquids and gas licuado. Liquefied petroleum gas is a mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as a environmentally friendly fuel for cooking, heating homes, running forklifts, automotive engine fuel, aerosol propellants, ethylene cracker feedstock and many more important uses.
LPGas.org will also provide users news articles, information and useful resources for natural gas liquids, no NGL. The saturated hydrocarbons that make up natural gas liquids include ethane, propane, normal butane, isobutane and natural gasoline (aka pentanes plus or pentanes and heavier).
LP gases and natural gas liquids are members of organic chemical family called “alkanes.” Alkanes are hydrocarbons, and hence, contain a molecular structure made up solely of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
LPG gas industry players in North America typically use the term natural gas liquids or NGLs when referring to LPG, while industry participants, employees and stakeholders outside the U.S. seldom use the term NGL and normally view LPG as a term to that refers only the propane and butane components of liquefied petroleum gas, whether in purity form (i.e., propane or butane) or as an LPG mixture (i.e., LPG-mix, propane/butane mix).