[Editor’s note: The full version of this article originally appeared in the January issue of E&P Plus. Subscribe to the digital publication here.] This special section highlights the latest hydraulic fracturing technologies and services from nearly 40 companies and how these tools aim to address operator challenges. Click here to read the 2021 Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Showcase in the January
Read More...The outlook for the Marcellus and Utica shale plays is closely tied to demand for LNG exports, according to GlobalData analysts. However, additional pipeline capacity is needed to reach the Gulf Coast from the Appalachian Basin. Currently, the US has an export capacity of 9.17 bcfd. Planned projects and those under construction increase export capacity
Read More...U.S. chemical companies hope Biden brings change from times of ‘disagreement’; Wood Mackenzie sees U.S.-China trade continuing to decline; Mexican chemical industry worried about possible new railway blockades in 2021 | Reuters Events | Downstream
Read More...Automation Engineering Company (AEC) of Greenville, SC, a collaborative solutions provider to some of the world’s leading industrial companies, has hired Olin Bundy as its new South Central Territory manager in December 2020. Olin Bundy’s new sales role will allow AEC to better serve the South Central region. (Source: Automation Engineering Co.) Olin brings decades of
Read More...Enerplus Corp. agreed to acquire private Williston Basin operator Bruin E&P Partners LLC in a multimillion-dollar cash transaction the company said Jan. 25 will complement its existing position in the Bakken. Based in Houston, Bruin E&P Partners holds 151,000 net acres in the Williston Basin all located within North Dakota. The acquisition includes 30,000 net
Read More...The U.S. rig count rose by 15 as of Jan. 20, according to Enverus Rig Analytics. The rig count in the U.S. is up 6% in the last month and down 48% year-over-year. The basin adding the most rigs was the Permian, with a six-rig jump to 183. Over the last month, the Permian Basin
Read More...Custom injection molder Plastic Molding Manufacturing Co. (PMM) expects to have five new presses up and running in February. Along with the new presses — two with clamping forces of 200 tons, two with 250 and one with 80 tons — PMM purchased two computer-controlled coordinate measuring machines (CMMs), for a total investment of more
Read More...Native American tribes are exempt from the Biden administration’s temporary suspension of U.S. oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Interior said on Jan. 25. The clarification comes after an oil-producing tribe in Utah last week asked Interior for an exemption from the 60-day pause, saying
Read More...Aston, Pa.-based Maguire Products Inc. bought a minority share of Bridgeville, Del.-based O.A. Newton, a supplier of bulk material handling systems to the wood-plastic composite (WPC), flexible and rigid PVC and carbon black markets, to expand capabilities. O.A. Newton designs and builds complete systems for unloading, storage, conveying, and blending of process ingredients for plastics
Read More...ACS GROUP — The auxiliary equipment maker in New Berlin, Wis., named Jason Spangler Northeast regional sales manager. AGILYX AS — The chemical recycler in Oslo named Beatriz Malo de Molina chief financial officer, succeeding Russell Main. COLORTECH — The manufacturer of color and additive concentrates in Morristown, Tenn., named Paul Pitman sales director and
Read More...Lincolnshire, Ill. — From a flexible sander made for Sears Roebuck in 1946 to intricate medical devices for niche markets today, Flexan LLC has experienced success across a range of molded goods spaces. That growth continued recently with the company’s Suzhou, China, manufacturing facility becoming registered by the Food and Drug Administration for class II
Read More...Employees at Covestro’s compounding plant in Newark, Ohio, have built a ramp to help a local military veteran. The site’s Covestro Helping Armed Forces Military Personnel (CHAMP) group built the ramp over a two-day period earlier this month. VFW Post 1060 had reached out to the group for a hospitalized veteran who would be released
Read More...Finally! The Weymouth compressor station, the final piece of the $452 million Atlantic Bridge expansion project that has been years in the making, is either now online and flowing gas, or will be within a day or two at most. However, given a vote last week by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) questioning whether
Read More...click for larger version In March 2019 MDN brought you the news that Wood Group had been awarded a $34 million contract to build 28 miles of the 60-mile Risberg Pipeline from Crawford County, PA to Ashtabula County, OH (see Wood Wins $34M Contract to Build PA to OH Risberg Pipeline). The portion Wood built
Read More...In December, the Maryland Board of Public Works (BPW), which has three members (two leftwing Democrats and RINO Gov. Larry Hogan), surprisingly approved a 10-inch, 6.83-mile pipeline for the Maryland portion of a 19+ mile project called the Del-Mar Energy Pathway Project, crossing both Delaware and Maryland (see Maryland Board of Public Works Approves Tiny
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