Americas
IHS CERA/World Economic Forum report: Natural gas enters a new era of abundance
Technology is driving a revolution in natural gas supply, but its new abundance also brings market changes.
Offshore logjam breaking as oil field services sector rebounded in 2010
Strong oil prices and rising E&P budgets leading continued strong oil field services activity and improving financial performance is predicted in 2011.
CERAWeek 2011 begins in Houston today
In Houston, Texas, energy executives worldwide have gathered for the 30th CERAWEEK conference.
KBR Awarded FEED for Kitimat LNG Development
Houston-based KBR announced that it has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract by KM LNG Operating General Partnership for the Kitimat Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Development near Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada.
Energy management toolkit available soon
The US Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) is in the process of developing the Energy Management Toolkit.
BP speaks up at CERAWeek
Robert Dudley, Chief Executive, BP plc, addressed the 2011 CERAWeek congress with a message of a new era and new responsibilities for the energy industry.
Association says proposed changes to US ozone standard will harm job growth
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed changes to US federal standards regulating ozone could inflict serious harm on America’s economy, job growth and consumers, said Gregory Scott, executive vice president and general counsel of NPRA, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, in a statement today to an EPA advisory panel.
CHS investing $26 million in refined fuels infrastructure
CHS Inc., an energy, grains and foods company, announced today it is investing $26 million in enhancements to strengthen its refined fuels supply infrastructure in the northern plains region of the US.
Improving pH control mitigates corrosion in crude units
Equipment and pipe failures can be avoided through better desalting practices and inhibitor injections
Avoid brittle fracture in pressure vessels
Key points identify effects from auto-refrigeration on steel vessels
- Vioneo awards Lummus polypropylene contract for world's first industrial scale fossil-free plastics from green methanol facility 8/19
- Research: Developing an energy-saving, carbon-capturing method for making ethylene glycol 8/19
- Emerson announced the release of its new Rosemount 3144S temperature transmitter 8/19
- Chinese refiners sweep up Russian oil after Indian demand falls 8/19
- Indonesia plans quick-to-build oil refineries for U.S. crude 8/19
- Russia's ultra low-sulfur diesel exports from Primorsk scheduled to rise in August 8/19
