For the third time this year, New Jersey-based packaging and custom medical molder Comar LLC is expanding. The first project, announced in February, was in California. The second, announced in June, was in New Jersey. This time Comar is targeting the Midwest. The company announced Nov. 10 that it is moving into a 160,000-square-foot former
Read More...TH Plastics Inc., a Mendon, Mich.-based injection molder that serves appliance and automotive customers, is adding a new plant in Tiffin, Ohio. The company is moving into a speculative industrial building in the Eagle Rock Business Park. The building was constructed in 2018 by the Tiffin-Seneca Economic Partnership, which announced the news. Before moving in,
Read More...Forty Under 40: Aaron Chang, Continental Resources Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Aaron Chang, Continental Resources’ vice president of oil and gas marketing who said an internship as a field engineer in rural Oklahoma changed his medical school plans. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...In the 70 years that silicone literally has been a part of the fabric of society, perhaps no era has been more tumultuous for the elastomer’s market than the last four years. In 2017, the silicone market was strong, from pricing to capacity to demand. That all changed in 2018, when the market witnessed supply
Read More...[Editor’s note: This story was updated at 1:43 p.m. CT Nov. 10.] Occidental Petroleum Corp. on Nov. 10 laid out a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at its operations to net-zero by 2040, becoming the latest oil and gas company to set long-term climate goals. Oil and gas producers, under pressure from investors who
Read More...U.S. crude oil production is expected to fall by 860,000 bbl/d in 2020 to 11.39 million bbl/d, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Nov. 10, a bigger decline than its previous forecast for a drop of 800,000 bbl/d. U.S. crude oil production has recovered from the two-and-a-half-year lows touched in May mainly because
Read More...Forty Under 40: Aaron Chang, Continental Resources Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Aaron Chang, Continental Resources’ vice president of oil and gas marketing who said an internship as a field engineer in rural Oklahoma changed his medical school plans. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...Cranberry Township, Pa. — The latest EP2 series portable chillers from auxiliary equipment supplier Conair Group include a programmable logic control (PLC) and a seven-inch color touch screen human-machine interface as standard equipment with air-cooled, water-cooled, or remote air-cooled condensers. The chillers use a new sloped top electrical panel that places the large touch screen
Read More...Lee’s Summit, Mo. — Maruka USA has introduced the new Toyo Electric Si-6s series injection molding machine, which it says adds a literal “twist” to the automatic purge. When the screw is fully retracted during auto purge, it allows the extruder servo motor to oscillate it back and forth at high speed almost like a
Read More...Riverstone Holdings LLC entered into a definitive agreement on Nov. 9 to buy International-Matex Tank Terminals (IMTT) from Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. for total consideration of $2.685 billion subject to customary closing adjustments. Established in 1939, IMTT is an industry leader in the storage and handling of bulk liquid products that are used in energy, industrial,
Read More...This has been going on for more than a year. Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 303-mile pipeline from West Virginia to southern Virginia, has not been able to finish a project that is now 92% in the ground and complete because of repeated lawsuits by the Sierra Club and colluding leftist Democrat judges on the U.S.
Read More...Injection well process (click for larger version) Last year Bobcat Energy Resources finished work on a Class II wastewater injection well in Coitsville Township, near Youngstown, OH, and began operating the well (see New Mahoning Injection Well Online Soon; OEPA Issues Violation). Bobcat has filed an application with the Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR)
Read More...Yesterday UGI Energy Services, a subsidiary of Pennsylvania utility company UGI Corporation, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its brand new Bethlehem, PA LNG peak shaver facility. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) Chairwoman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille was among the dignitaries on hand to celebrate. What is a “peak shaver” and why is this an important project
Read More...We’ve been tracking the daily price of the NYMEX December futures contract at the South Louisiana Henry Hub on and off for the past few months. Yesterday it closed down again, at $2.86/Mcf (or MMBtu). However, the “spot price” for gas–actual physical gas bought and sold at various trading points along pipelines–has all but crashed
Read More...Nuverra Environmental Solutions (formerly Heckmann) is one of the largest companies in the United States that handles transportation and disposal of shale drilling wastewater and leftover rock and dirt from drilling. The company has major operations in the Marcellus/Utica region. In August, the company reported less-than-rosy results for the second quarter, because of the coronavirus
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