April 11, 2019 Updated 4/12/2019 Email Print Plastics News Europe Kestutis Sadauskas speaks at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe. Amsterdam — A leader of the European Commission is giving his support to efforts made by the plastics industry to increase recycling. At the Plastics Recycling Show Europe 2019 in Amsterdam, European Commissioner Kestutis Sadauskas gave
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. President Trump visited Houston, Texas yesterday to sign a pair of Executive Orders to help spur more energy infrastructure development across the country. In particular, the orders were aimed at clearing away
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. An overlooked aspect of yesterday’s Executive Order signed by President Trump will have an impact on natural gas by altering the way it’s transported. In addition to directing the federal EPA to
Read More...April 11, 2019 Updated 4/11/2019 Email Print Kurt NaglCrain’s Detroit Business Automate Organizers of Automate, the largest North American automation show, announced the event will move to Detroit in 2021. A large robotics trade show is leaving Chicago after nearly a decade to return to Detroit. Automate, dubbed by organizers as the largest automation show
Read More...April 11, 2019 Updated 4/11/2019 Email Print March held different narratives for North American commodity resins, with polystyrene and PET bottle resin prices each moving up, while prices for polypropylene declined. The biggest change was in polypropylene, where prices slid an average of 3 cents per pound. That marks the fifth consecutive monthly price drop
Read More...April 11, 2019 Updated 4/11/2019 Email Print Jim Johnson Lopinsky National Harbor, Md. — A trade group representing plastics recyclers is re-emphasizing its non-profit foundation as the group looks to continue to increase influence. The Association of Plastic Recyclers established the non-profit Foundation for Plastic Recycling about five years ago. APR President Steve Alexander originally
Read More...Supporters of American energy hope the executive orders that President Trump signed directing the Environmental Protection Agency to revise certain policies will prevent abuse by states like New York who have used the environmental review process to unnecessarily block pipeline projects at the request of Keep-It-In-the-Ground activists. In a speech prior to signing the orders
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. President Donald Trump delivered some great news to pipeliners yesterday with his pipeline executive order, Andrew Cuomo says it’s overreach, so it’s good! The Trump pipeline executive order is here! And, Andrew Cuomo, the king of overreachers, says it’s “gross overreach.” We don’t need to know a lot more,
Read More...Pipeline construction within the Appalachian Basin has spurred economic activity in recent years, according to a study by Energy In Depth. Pipeline construction projects have created $32.6 billion of investments and more than 124,000 jobs as companies build more than 3,500 miles of pipelines in parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, according to the
Read More...Anti-fossil fuel activists have been spinning a tale for months that oil and gas companies can spew “toxic air pollution” into the air for three months without consequence. The short answer is no: the claim only takes into consideration “permitting” and does not account for Colorado regulations. For example, truth is, there is no “loophole”
Read More...There’s a myth circulating throughout the Marcellus, Utica and Ohio River Valley that there is a shortage of properties for development. The prolonging of this myth is danger to the entire Appalachian Basin. Royal Dutch Shell is building a $6 billion cracker plant in Monaca, Pennsylvania. PTTGC America and Daelim are about to make their
Read More...Energy production in the United States and abroad is changing rapidly. It wasn’t long ago that coal-fired plants accounted for more than 50 percent of the electricity in the United States. By 2017, plant retirements had reduced that share to just a little over 30 percent. Predictions are that coal will fall to 15 percent
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. I had an opportunity a few minutes ago to speak to Pipeliners Union 798 at their annual Steward School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Here’s what I told them. When Guy Williams asked me if I would come to speak with you, I jumped at the chance. I met Guy and
Read More...President Vladimir Putin said on April 9 that Russia and OPEC should discuss the future of their oil output-cutting deal later this year, adding that current oil prices suited Moscow. OPEC and other large oil producers led by Russia agreed to reduce their combined output by 1.2 million barrels per day (MMbbl/d) from Jan. 1 this year for six months in an attempt to
Read More...Canada-based PetroTal said April 9 initial logs from an oil development well drilled in Peru’s Bretaña oil field indicate a total gross oil column of 24 m with estimated net oil pay of 18.7 m. “The well logs provide an early indication that the reservoir is as we expected, with good oil shows in the
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