A new study takes a second look at the U.S. level of responsibility for plastic marine pollution; unexpected seasonal price increases for two resins. This post appeared first on Plastics News.
Read More...Norwegian energy company Equinor aims to become a net zero emitter of greenhouse gases by 2050, including emissions from the production and final consumption of oil and gas, its new CEO said as he took office on Nov. 2. Anders Opedal, the first engineer to lead state-controlled Equinor, plans to expand the acquisition of acreage for wind power while also utilizing carbon capture and storage (CCS) and
Read More...Early this year, global plastics processors shifted to new production lines to meet unprecedented demand for goods needed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic while keeping their workers employed through periods of lagging demand in other sectors. Those suppliers are still seeing the effects of the pandemic on their core markets, and some have shifted almost
Read More...When you daydream about what retirement will look like, do you think of golf? Gardening? Maybe spending time with the grandkids? Chris Pappas, who stepped down as CEO of materials supplier Trinseo in 2019, is spending it as executive director of FirstEnergy Corp., an Ohio utility that just terminated CEO Charles Jones and two senior
Read More...Forty Under 40: Abdalla Ali, Wayfinder Resources Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Abdalla Ali, vice president of engineering at Wayfinder Resources, a Houston-based onshore oil and gas company with assets in the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...Propellant-boosted perforating has proven to affordably increase completion and recompletion performance in a wide variety of saltwater disposal (SWD) wells and producers. Advances in integrating propellants with traditional shaped-charge perforating technology have enabled perforating and stimulation operations to be performed in one trip at lower cost than traditional two-step, shoot-and-treat methods. The critical success factor
Read More...The oil and gas industry, particularly the E&P and oilfield services subsectors, have faced significant headwinds over the last few years, most recently with the simultaneous demand destruction resulting from COVID-19 and supply shock from the Saudi Arabia-led price war. These recent events, combined with capital flight out of the industry and demands for capital
Read More...AmericanEnergy Alliance …. …. [Editor’s Note: Donald Trump way surpasses Joe Biden on the energy issues as this comparison of their policies by AEA so vividly demonstrates.] President Donald Trump’s mantra of energy dominance says it all. Trump views American energy resources as strategic and economic assets that will make us stronger at home and across the
Read More...Abdalla Ali, vice president of engineering at Houston-based Wayfinder Resources LLC, is today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree. Prior to Wayfinder, Ali worked in the A&D advisory practice at Wells Fargo Securities as their petroleum engineer and petrophysicist. While with Wells Fargo, he helped advise more than 80 private and public upstream and midstream companies,
Read More...[Editor’s note: This introduction to the cover story first appeared in the November issue of E&P Plus. To view the full issue, click here. To subscribe to the digital publication, visit here.] Around this time last year, oil and gas executives were contemplating how Big Data analytics could become a source of significant competitive advantage for their
Read More...NOW Inc.’s Dick Alario has stepped down from his short-term role as executive vice chairman, the Houston-based oilfield service company said in an Oct. 30 release. Alario previously served as interim CEO of the company from Nov. 1, 2019 until the appointment of David Cherechinsky as president and CEO on June 1, 2020. At such
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about a methanol plant, Diversified Oil & Gas, Gulfport Energy and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to
Read More...EQT is in discussions with up to five different unnamed parties to sell some or all of its contracted capacity in the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline that is expected to begin service next year, according to Kallanish Energy. EQT CFO David Khani made the announcement last week in an earnings call with analysts and the
Read More...Upper DelawareRiver Basin Citizens …. …. The UDRBC held another very successful candidate night last week and Jim Bognet exposed Cong. Cartwright as a rich Canadian interloper. The Beach Lake Fire Hall was the location of a Meet the Candidates evening hosted by the Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens (UDRBC) on October 20, 2020. The
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. Anti-Fracking Crusade Running Out of Gas? Dan Markind does an election overview with respect to states where fracking has been an
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