Polypropylene and Its Impact on the LPG Industry: Understanding the Link Between Polypropylene and LPG Demand
Polypropylene is a widely used plastic, essential in industries ranging from packaging to automotive manufacturing. But did you know that the polypropylene production process has a direct impact on the LPG industry? With the growing demand for polypropylene, it’s important to understand how it might influence LPG demand in the petrochemical sector. In this article, […]
Romania’s expanding autogas market boosts 2023 imports
Romania experienced a significant rise in autogas consumption last year, attributed to its lower cost compared to gasoline and diesel. The increase in demand led to a substantial boost in LPG imports, growing by over a quarter from the previous year. Key Points: Overall, the lower cost of autogas relative to other fuels is driving […]
Petrochemical and Plastics Industry and the Climate
Unfortunately, the impact of the chemical and petrochemical industries on the environment remains significantly negative. And this issue is still being debated among environmentalists around the world. According to many scientists, the petrochemical industry has a significant impact on global warming, which in turn affects other natural processes. Chemical and petrochemical enterprises produce a wide […]
Oil and Gas Industry Trends in 2019
Every year, the leaders and founders of worldwide global energy companies gather in the United States to examine, analyze and discuss the issue of global energy industry moving and try to determine short-and long-term prospects in this area. Below are the main theses regarding the oil and gas trends of 2019, which were most often […]
Oil production releases more methane than previously thought
Global methane and ethane emissions from oil production from 1980 to 2012 were far higher than previous estimates show, according to a new study which for the first time takes into account different production management systems and geological conditions around the world. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, which scientists rank as the second-most important […]
Cash, Carbon , Crude: How to make oil fields bury emissions
In February 2018, Donald Trump signed into law new tax credits that reward oil companies for capturing carbon dioxide and preventing it from entering the atmosphere — either by burying the gas underground or by pumping it into wells to boost production. These tax credits, which have bipartisan support, are encouraging for those who believe […]
Radioactivity from oil and gas wastewater persists in Pennsylvania stream sediments
More than seven years after Pennsylvania officials requested that the disposal of radium-laden fracking wastewater into surface waters be restricted, a new Duke University study finds that high levels of radioactivity persist in stream sediments at three disposal sites. The contamination is coming from the disposal of conventional, or non-fracked, oil and gas wastewater, which, […]
Large-scale US wind power would cause warming that would take roughly a century to offset
“Wind beats coal by any environmental measure, but that doesn’t mean that its impacts are negligible,” says senior author David Keith, an engineering and public policy professor at Harvard University. “We must quickly transition away from fossil fuels to stop carbon emissions. In doing so, we must make choices between various low-carbon technologies, all of […]
Largest continuous oil and gas resource potential ever
Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced the Wolfcamp Shale and overlying Bone Spring Formation in the Delaware Basin portion of Texas and New Mexico’s Permian Basin province contain an estimated mean of 46.3 billion barrels of oil, 281 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 20 billion barrels of natural gas liquids, according […]
Deep sea chemical dispersants ineffective in Deepwater Horizon oil spill, study finds
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, releasing 210 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico for a total of 87 days, making it the largest oil spill in U.S. history. A University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science-led research team analyzed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons […]
