Energy consumption in the U.S. reached a record high of more than 101 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) in 2018, surpassing the previous high recorded in 2007, by less than 0.3%, the Energy Information Administration reports. For nearly 70 years, the electric power sector, which both consumes and produces energy, has been responsible for some of the
Read More...U.S. pipeline operator Plains All American has abandoned a plan to institute a surcharge to offset Section 232 steel tariffs for its new Cactus II Pipeline, following objections by ConocoPhillips and Encana, according to regulatory documents secured by Kallanish, sister publication of Kallanish Energy. The proposed tariff would have been $0.05/barrel on its 670,000 barrels
Read More...Driving Digital Technology To Deliver The Lowest Cost Solution While the oil and gas industry has made significant inroads in improving operational efficiency using disruptive technologies, there is a vast pool of knowledge stretching back decades to the days of paper-based production. Unlocking analog data could be the key to reducing the cost of exploration
Read More...Driving Digital Technology To Deliver The Lowest Cost Solution While the oil and gas industry has made significant inroads in improving operational efficiency using disruptive technologies, there is a vast pool of knowledge stretching back decades to the days of paper-based production. Unlocking analog data could be the key to reducing the cost of exploration
Read More...Driving Digital Technology To Deliver The Lowest Cost Solution While the oil and gas industry has made significant inroads in improving operational efficiency using disruptive technologies, there is a vast pool of knowledge stretching back decades to the days of paper-based production. Unlocking analog data could be the key to reducing the cost of exploration
Read More...Halliburton Co. released ten new DecisionSpace 365 E&P cloud-native applications that leverage advances in digital technology to help operators reduce exploration risk, improve reservoir characterization and boost drilling efficiency on Aug. 27. DecisionSpace 365 is an integrated experience of E&P Cloud applications that empower customers’ to be creative and realize their business objectives. DecisionSpace 365
Read More...Six major petrochemical companies have set up a consortium to jointly investigate how naphtha or gas steam crackers could be operated using renewable electricity instead of fossil fuels. Chaired by the Netherlands-based Brightlands Chemelot Campus, the Cracker of the Future consortium includes BASF, Borealis, BP, LyondellBasell, Sabic and Total and aims to produce base chemicals while
Read More...Coperion GmbH has enabled Asahel Benin Sarl, a blown film manufacturer in the African country of Benin, to produce bio-based films by delivering a complete compounding system and sharing process engineering expertise. The system includes a ZSK 26 Mc-18 twin screw extruder, four feeders from Coperion K-Tron, a water bath, an air wipe and a
Read More...Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. wrapped up the Husky World Tour on May 15, hosting a one-day event in Santa Fe, Mexico, attended by more than 70 visitors from throughout the country. Husky, based in Bolton, Ontario, has been developing increasingly flexible, digital machinery solutions to help customers be competitive by making differentiated packages, with
Read More...Arburg GmbH + Co KG marked its 25th year in Switzerland with an open house in Münsingen. About 130 guests attended. Managing Partner Juliane Hehl presented the traditional Arburg anniversary sculpture to Marcel Spadini, managing director of Arburg AG. “Important factors in Arburg’s success story are highly prized by its customers,” Hehl said in a
Read More...Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH is introducing its Tempro plus D100 temperature controller — an extension of the big-selling Tempro plusD line — at K 2019. There is a demand for pressured temperature controllers for a maximum temperature of 100° C, resulting in the D100. The Tempro plus D100 is equipped with a standard wear-resistant and maintenance-free
Read More...Researchers from Pennsylvania State University, using a new testing protocol that uses existing, affordable water chemistry tests, have tested 20,751 water well samples from wells located near high levels of both conventional and shale oil and gas drilling in PA. The tests show whether or not existing/naturally occurring methane is in the water well, or
Read More...Credit: Erie Times-News (click for larger version) The Risberg Line, a 60-mile pipeline from Crawford County, PA to Erie County, PA, and from there across the border into Ashtabula County, OH, began construction in February (see Construction Begins on “Massive” PA to OH Risberg Pipeline). As the project nears completion, Ashtabula is already seeing the
Read More...New Fortress Energy is in the process of building the first (of two or more) LNG liquefying plants in Wyalusing, PA–nowhere near a shoreline. The company will truck (eventually rail) the LNG to a port located on the Delaware River along the New Jersey shoreline for export to Puerto Rico and other destinations. As we
Read More...In what we would say is an unusual, very public rebuke of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the former chairperson of the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Utilities says that Cuomo is to blame for a near-emergency situation in New England during the winter of 2017/2018 when the region was within two days of a massive
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