Formosa adds low density polyethylene manufacturing on the Gulf Coast; Braskem Idesa closes production at massive PE site in Mexico when government shuts down natural gas supply; NAPCOR backs bottle return programs to boost PET recycling. This post appeared first on Plastics News.
Read More...A Minnesota company known for its work in helping people with disabilities find steady work is getting some help to expand. Grants from the Blandin Foundation, the Department of Iron Range Resources & Rehabilitation, the Otto Bremer Trust and Enbridge will help Minnesota Diversified Industries Inc. buy a new profile extruder for polypropylene to support growth
Read More...General Motors Co.’s existing footprint of assembly plants for internal combustion vehicles will be an advantage to GM’s electric vehicle future, according to Dane Parker, chief sustainability officer. Detroit-based GM has 11 assembly plants in the U.S. alone. Factory Zero, previously called Detroit-Hamtramck, is being retooled for all-EV production. Spring Hill Assembly in Tennessee is
Read More...Keith Kimme, reserves manager at Monadnock Resources LLC, is today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree. Kimme spent the bulk of his career in the consulting space, and he considers “branching out into an E&P” to be a career milestone. “I had considered trying to pick up a geology degree and keep things moving in that
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 “Bomb Trains”, tree-sitting wackos, fossil fuel subsidies and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the Williamsport area
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-Capitalist AOC Sells Shirts toFund the Green New Deal and Herself! Unless this is some stupid political stunt, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for
Read More...Radcliffe “Cliffe” Killam II, partner at Killam Oil Co., is today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree. Killam helped transform his family’s multigeneration oil business into a more efficient organization driven by clear communication and common goals. Based in Laredo, Texas, Killam Oil is a private, family owned company with core operations in South Texas. The
Read More...The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate environment committee is urging the federal government to adopt extended producer responsibility for plastics, including having the industry help fund recycling programs. Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., urged a much bigger role for Washington around recycling in detailed comments to the Environmental Protection Agency as it develops the country’s
Read More...Earlier this week the NYMEX natural gas futures contract for December rolled off and the January contract became the “front contract” being traded. The latest storage numbers–how much gas has *not* been withdrawn from storage–combined with weather forecasts and computerized trading to hammer prices. Natgas was down 10 cents on Wednesday, and down another 27
Read More...The first of 10 LNG (liquefied natural gas) mini-trains at Kinder Morgan’s Elba Island, Georgia export facility went online in December of last year (see Elba Island Finally Exported First Marcellus LNG Cargo on Friday). Since that time, the other nine trains have come online one at a time, with the last unit going into
Read More...The clown judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (one of whom quotes from children’s books in her opinions) have signaled they will overturn, again (for the second or third time) a permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that allows the 92% completed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from
Read More...The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) is in major butt-covering mode with the state’s conventional (non-shale) oil and gas industry. During an industry-led advisory committee meeting held yesterday, members of PA’s conventional oil and gas industry delivered some rather blunt comments to DEP Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management Scott Perry, accusing the
Read More...click for larger version On Wednesday, Hart Energy held its annual DUG (Developing Unconventional Gas) East event. This year the event was virtual instead of in-person at the convention center in Pittsburgh. One acronym seemed to be on the lips of nearly every speaker at this year’s event: ESG, which stands for “environment, social, governance.”
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … Andrew Cuomo’s c legislation seems to rely upon some really wacky wind power economics that don’t accord with reality. A summary description of two reports prepared by Gordon Hughes, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, Wind Power Economics – Rhetoric and Reality for the Renewable Energy
Read More...Denmark’s government on Dec. 3 agreed with a majority in parliament to put and end to all oil and gas exploration and extraction in the North Sea by 2050 as well as cancel its latest licensing round. The future of Denmark’s oil and gas operations in the North Sea has been a political issue after
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