Opening of Mexican Energy Industry Driving Energy Infrastructure Investment and Breathing New Life into Petrochemicals

03-Sep-2015 - The recent opening of the Mexican upstream energy industry, combined with access to abundant U.S. natural gas feedstock from Texas, is driving significant energy infrastructure investment on both sides of the border. That infrastructure, along with planned access to more competitively priced ...

Oil Field Chemicals Market Reached $25 Billion in 2014, but Oil Price Declines Slowing Growth

15-Jul-2015 - Driven in large part by the rapid expansion of shale oil and gas drilling and production in North America, the world market for oil field specialty chemicals at the service company level reached $25 billion in 2014, up from nearly $16 billion in 2010, but significant declines in oil price have ...

Ongoing Political Unrest in Ukraine Impacting Fertilizer, Ammonia and Urea Industries

14-Jul-2014 - Escalation of the ongoing Ukraine conflict that first involved Russian intervention and has now evolved to a dispute between separatists in Eastern Ukraine seeking autonomy and the government in Kiev, is disrupting production and exports of fertilizer and ammonia from the Black Sea, since plants ...

Plastic Recycling Processes in Industrialized Nations Pushed to Improve as China Seeks to End Reign as Global Dumping Ground

European goal is zero plastics waste going to landfills by 2020

24-Jun-2014 - Despite the fact that Europe is a global leader in plastics recycling and in diverting plastics from landfills by using waste-to-energy programs that convert waste into power generation, Europe, along with many other industrialized regions, recently got another major incentive to increase its ...