Weirauch, Wendy
HP Impact: HPImpact: Price spiral could affect coal next
Significant increases in natural gas and oil prices have captured the attention of business developers, consumers and headlines. Not so visible, however, have been the recent increases in the cost of ..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Rising oil cost spurs new appeal of GTL process
The perceived competition between LNG and Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) GTL is neither for markets (LNG serves the utilities market; F-T GTL serves the transportation fuels markets), nor for gas resources, sa..
HP Impact: HPImpact: CO2-free power promises advances in reforming
BP's recently announced hydrogen power station project could have spin-off benefits for sites that rely heavily on hydrotreating or sulfur removal or are based within greenhouse gas emissions trading ..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Expanding economies, new technologies spur industrial valve sales
Global industrial valve sales were about $40 billion in 2004. By 2010, annual sales will exceed $50 billion, says a new report by the McIlvaine Company (www.mcilvainecompany.com). A number of publicly..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Oil supply to outpace demand by 2007, says new CERA report
Despite current fears that oil will soon "run out," global oil production capacity is actually set to increase dramatically over the rest of this decade, according to a new report by Cambridge Energy ..
HP Impact: US Gulf Coast must focus on value-chain products to compete
What is the future of the US Gulf Coast petrochemical industry? According to Avi Nash, market analyst and formerly a partner with Goldman Sachs, the US Gulf Coast petrochemical industry will be viable..
HP Impact: HPImpact: EU framework for water quality impacts downstream operations
The European Commission's Water Framework Directive (WFD) was intended to replace a patchwork of other legislation, often overlapping and even contradictory, on various aspects of water management and..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Environmental standards in India: new constraints pressure refiners
Environmental issues are receiving growing awareness in India. This has translated into that nation developing a policy framework through regulations, as well as implementing international standards t..
HP Impact: HPImpact: US polymerization catalyst demand to grow 5.5%/yr
Growth in US polymerization catalyst demand will derive primarily from increased polymer production and the expanding use of higher-value Ziegler-Natta and single-site catalysts. "These catalysts, ..
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