2020 has been an active year for Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (Sabic), as the materials firm reacts to the COVID-19 pandemic while advancing in sustainability. Polycarbonate and other materials made by Sabic are being used in face shields and other health care applications, Americas Vice President Greg Adams said on a Sept. 21 interview with
Read More...Earlier this week we brought you a post exploring whether or not PTT Global Chemical will, in the end, actually build a $10 billion ethane cracker plant in Belmont County, Ohio (see Is PTT Going to Build a Cracker in Belmont County, OH…or Not?). Yesterday gave us one more strong signal for the “yes they
Read More...On Tuesday Equitrans Midstream sent the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) an official letter (called a filing) politely requesting FERC get off its collective rear end and grant permission to resume construction activities for Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) so they can complete certain kinds of work before winter sets in. Equitrans requested an order allowing
Read More...S&P Global analysts have been looking at natural gas production numbers for Pennsylvania. The most recently available data is from June (numbers are always delayed a few months). S&P found that shale gas production in PA dropped 2% in June from May, to 18.48 Bcf/d. June’s numbers were essentially flat to the same time in
Read More...Analysts at S&P Global are making a bold prediction: It will take a full ten years for the world to recover from the coronavirus and begin growing its demand for natural gas once again. Something about the prediction just seems “off” to us.This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Each quarter the Dallas Federal Reserve conducts a survey of 150-200 oil and gas firms located or headquartered in the Eleventh District–Texas, southern New Mexico, and northern Louisiana. The energy company executives surveyed run companies that operate regionally, nationally, and some even internationally. The Dallas Fed released its latest quarterly Energy Survey results yesterday. We
Read More...Bet you never thought you’d read about (or watch) a Justin Bieber video on MDN. We never thought we would write about or feature Bieber’s music. But then we watched a video of his newest song called Holy, a video that’s been watched (so far) over 32 million times since it was released to Youtube
Read More...MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: PUC orders Sunoco Pipeline to conduct public education & awareness meeting in Cumberland County; Boilermakers, CNX share stage to back fracking, pipelines and Trump; Energy secretary sees region’s plastics industry as critical; Trump slams Biden on fracking and trade at Pennsylvania rally; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: California should ban oilfield fracturing by 2024 and
Read More...Indianapolis — The American Mold Builders Association says industry knowledge meets critical thinking is the focus of its newest education series aimed at 40-and-under members. Called “Get Lean – A Project Based Application Series,” the six one-hour sessions cover “the why and how of lean manufacturing principles,” including structure and application, case studies, opportunities driving
Read More...Data Gumbo, the trusted industrial blockchain network, said Sept. 24 it has executed the first close in its Series B funding round of $4 million led by new investor L37, a Bay Area and Houston-based venture capital company, with return investments from Equinor Ventures, the venture subsidiary of Equinor, and Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, the venture subsidiary of Saudi
Read More...Energy Transfer Partners, as the kids would say, got “2020ed.” The company’s Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) was ordered to shut down in early July by a federal judge who ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not conduct an environmental impact statement as required before issuing a permit. So, three years after DAPL
Read More...Three Norwegian labor unions agreed on a wage deal with the owners of floating offshore oil rigs, preventing a strike that could eventually have halted the exploration for new oil and gas reserves, the unions and companies said in separate statements on Sept. 24. The deal between the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association and the Industri Energi,
Read More...Archer has secured a four-year contract extension with Apache Corp. on Sept. 23 for the provision of platform drilling operations and maintenance services on Beryl Alpha and Bravo, Forties Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta in the U.K. North Sea. The extension will commence January 1, 2021 in direct continuation of the current contract. Based on
Read More...There’s no quick fix for the U.S. economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Cara Walton with consulting firm Harbour Results Inc. The impacts of early-year shutdowns and of slowed economic activity continue to be felt, Walton said during Plastics News’ 2020 Caps & Closures conference. Consumer sentiment remains down, in spite
Read More...Birmingham, Ala. — Homeland Vinyl Products Inc. will invest $2.2 million to add 38,000 square feet of production space and 55 employees for new fence, deck and rail extrusion and assembly capabilities in Surgoinsville, Tenn. The expansion follows a 2017 addition of 50,000 square feet at the facility. “We have had great success with our
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