Top propane industry posts of 2025

In looking ahead to the new year, we pause and reflect on our work – as you all do – and consider how we can continue to create the content that is most interesting and valuable to you and the propane industry.

Of course, we’re always interested in hearing directly from you – about a story idea, a new product, an event or something else within the scope of your business that we can help amplify. But we also have access to digital metrics that provide us with some insight about what most interests you as a reader of LP Gas. In this case, it’s a list of the top website posts of 2025 ranked by page views.

Our top posts this year covered the topics of propane market fundamentals, safety and training, industry regulations, mergers and acquisitions, and our exclusive initiatives like the LP Gas Top Propane Retailers and Rising Leaders.

Here’s a more detailed look at our most popular posts.

⦁ The propane market

Our top post of the year occurred in the heart of winter – January – when Mark Rachal of our partner Cost Management Solutions wrote in our weekly Trader’s Corner newsletter about “the dreaded propane price spike.” A combination of rising crude prices and extremely cold weather led to a 20-cent surge in propane prices at the hubs. This type of information is what makes Trader’s Corner so valuable. Propane retailers can receive consistent updates about the market right to their inboxes. Other top propane market posts from the year covered crude’s overall impact on propane prices; natural gas pricing impacts on propane; the reason for lower propane prices during the year; and “far-out thoughts on buying propane.”

⦁ Safety and training

An August article about the Department of Labor urging safety during trench and excavation work was our runner-up web article of the year. This notice came after a series of trench collapses in the Midwest.

Not far behind was a post, interestingly published in 2019, about the safety practices for transporting propane cylinders. This article spoke more to the propane consumer, so you can bet this post is drawing the attention of end users as well. But it’s also a good reminder for propane retailers to educate their customers about this practice before customers drive off the company lot with cylinders in tow.

Several safety articles related to regulators, as well as one about face seal inspections on cylinders, received numerous page views. And one company’s advocacy for fire safety training targeting fire departments nationwide drew reader interest as well.

⦁ Industry regulations

Another article published prior to 2025 continued to gain traction during the year. A piece about proper propane tank placement ranked among the top posts of 2025, as a retailer from California offered advice and shared guidelines from the National Fire Protection Association. The article also covered the do’s and don’ts for landscaping around a tank.

⦁ Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

We track and report on a steady flow of deals that take place throughout the year; some draw more attention than others. But a May article in which we listed the “25 deals that changed the propane industry” received plenty of positive feedback. It was also a fun piece to put together as we scoured our archives and talked to M&A leaders about the most impactful deals of their careers.

⦁ Top Retailers and Rising Leaders

Our industry exclusives are always among the most popular initiatives of the year. The Top Retailers ranks the largest propane companies in the United States and recognizes their leaders. The Rising Leaders recognizes the young up-and-coming members of the propane industry. We’ll feature both again in February 2026.

Please reach out if you need anything from us or have a good content idea that could one day land on this list.