Industrial gases

A bizarre new trend is seeing couples freezing their genitals in a bid to improve their appearance and boost their sex lives.
A spa in Manchester is offering up the unusual treatment, where temperatures dip as low as minus 160 degrees. The service from Cryotherapy UK, dubbed ‘Love Mist’, is available to both men and women, but it can only be performed by trained professionals.

Energy authorities in Greece have signaled that the country's natural gas system is expected to remain under pressure until early February.

Greece's Public Gas Corporation (DEPA) has asked its suppliers for increased quantities of liquefied natural gas in response to the growth in demand for the commodity in the local market and the reduction in the flow of gas from the country's northern borders.

The chief source of new problems is solutions to old problems. The ammonia that we used in domestic fridges as a coolant in the early-20th century was poisonous if it leaked, so in the 1930s we replaced it with chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which you can breathe all day without harm. Problem solved.

India has put forth a surprise proposal to increase the ambition of developed and developing nations to tackle the menace of Hydroflurocarbons (HFCs).

IHI will become the first Japanese company to establish a factory for compressors in Turkey, which it sees as a base for exporting the machines to Europe, the Middle East and other growing markets.

The Tokyo-based heavy industry group will partner with Turkish industrial machinery maker Dalgakıran Makina on the joint-venture plant. 

The world's first ever hydrogen hybrid sweeper, developed in Bulgaria, is to be officially unveiled in Birmingham on Wednesday.

The sweeper, which guarantees "ultra low emissions", will be launched at the Energy Event, a key event for energy and utilities procurement professionals held this year at the National Exhibition Center (NEC) of Birmingham, at 11:00 BST.

Lukoil Neftochim, a Burgas-based oil refinery, will be slapped with a fine for contaminating the city's air with hydrogen sulfide, Environment Minister Ivelina Vasileva has said.

Vasileva has told the Bulgarian National Television the official announcement is to come from local authorities later on Friday.

A woman and her three children have died from carbon monoxide poisoning after a gas leak at their flat in Istanbul.

The incident took place at night on Jan. 3 when the mother, 36-year-old Hediye Üzümcü, put her three kids to bed near the natural gas heater at home.

More than 100 people are believed to have been killed by an explosion of gas tanker truck at an  industrial gas plant in south-eastern Nigeria on Thursday night.