China plans to put more focus on boosting domestic projects to cut its growing dependence on gas imports as the security of its energy supply comes under the spotlight amid an ongoing trade war with the United States, according to Reuters. A new government research report, released on Saturday, shows the row with the U.S.
Read More...New Mexico’s growing oil and natural gas industry is set to generate “unprecedented opportunities” from a newly forecasted $174 billion in private infrastructure investments by 2030, the New Mexico Oil & Gas Association announced today. The forecast was included in a study by consulting firm ICF that said the new investment coupled with sound public
Read More...Berlin Packaging LLC is making an acquisition that will help distribution operations in Northern Europe, the company said. Berlin announced Sept. 3 that it purchased Vincap BV and Adolfse Packaging BV, based in Utrecht, Netherlands. Berlin described the acquired company as a significant supplier of plastic, cork and metal closures and plastic packaging for Belgium,
Read More...Westech Building Products LLC is closing its Mount Vernon, Ind., vinyl fence, deck and railing factory, the company told Indiana state regulators in an Aug. 23 letter. The company said in a letter required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act that 81 employees at the non-union plant will lose their jobs, and that
Read More...Japanese automotive supplier Sekisui Chemical will display its concept car for the first time in Europe during this year’s IAA Frankfurt motor show to be held Sept. 12-22. The futuristic vehicle incorporates all the core technologies in high performance plastics developed by Sekisui, including the company’s new HUD interlayer film technology for windshields. The film,
Read More...Prices for PE, PVC and PET bottle resin finish the summer with a slump, Formosa plans a Louisiana expansion and Ineos buys a French soccer team as it builds its exposure beyond materials. This post appeared first on Plastics News.
Read More...Artist rendering of Guernsey Power Plant (click for larger version) Construction on what we believe to be the country’s largest natural gas-fired electric plant, the Guernsey Power Station (being built in Guernsey County, Ohio), is set to begin “immediately” according to the company hired to do the engineering, procurement and construction activities (EPC). Last week
Read More...click for larger version Believe it or not, dry and sterile reports from government agencies, like the “Electric Power Outlook for Pennsylvania” issued by the state Public Utility Commission, can be exciting! The latest edition of the EPO report predicts natural gas-fired electric generation in PA will go from a current 30% of all electricity
Read More...In October 2016, Dominion announced a new pipeline project called Eastern Market Access Project (see Dominion Announces $145M Project to Expand Gas Supply to DC & MD). The $145 million project was slated to beef up two compressor stations in Virginia, build a new compressor station in Maryland, and add a couple of pipeline taps
Read More...“Bizarre” is the only word that comes to mind to describe a despicable, lowest-of-the-low, lying attack ad being run in Ohio by a front group for FirstEnergy meant to defend and preserve a horrible corporate welfare bailout law passed to prop up FirstEnergy’s economically dying nuclear (and coal) power plants. The $1 million ad campaign
Read More...Sunoco Pipeline, a division/part of Energy Transfer, has just been fined (again) for work related to the construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline project. This time around Sunoco got two fines: One for problems with their work in 2018, to the tune of $240,840, and one for work done back in 2017, to the
Read More...Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia Garland Thompson tells us not to be distracted by pipeline blockades in the politically correct Northeast because shale gas is headed south in a big way. News that a U.S. court upheld Maryland’s refusal to permit a planned 3.5-mile gas pipeline to cross state land to reach West
Read More...Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Extinction Rebellion is a climate extremist group focused principally on the UK. It suggests such extremism may be reaching peak lunacy levels, though. The surprisingly successful Extinction Rebellion is running a con game on everyone, especially their own followers. Ostensibly the standard bearer of
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … New York politicians, still imagining they’re living out their energy fantasies, are refusing to accept facts, as if running on empty through a bad neighborhood. How much self-deception can one practice before submitting to the truth? An infinite amount if New York politicians are any gauge. National Grid and
Read More...During the week ended Aug. 24, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources issued eight permits for horizontal well drilling in the Utica/Point Pleasant shale play, according to The Youngstown Business Journal. Ascent Resources received the most permits with four in Jefferson County. EAP Ohio ::C received three permits for wells in Harrison County. XTO Energy
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