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US PROPANE—FOURTH-QUARTER 2007-FIRST QUARTER 2008: Improved US production blunts cold weather effects

05/05/2008
Winter 2007-08 in the US was colder than any winter since 2002-03 and total heating degree days in the Northeast and upper Midwest were nearly equal to their 30-year averages. Despite the colder weather, US propane markets experienced no price spikes or distribution system problems. Improvement in domestic production during fourth-quarter 2007 helped offset the impact of colder weather and stronger demand in the residential-commercial sector of the US retail propane market.Feedstock demand for propane during first-quarter 2008 was also somewhat weaker than expected. This factor also helped offset the impact of the inventory deficit and colder weather.Feedstock demandDuring fourth-quarter ...
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