Thanksgiving Gas Prices Projected To Be Highest in Five Years
BOSTON — GasBuddy, the smartphone app helping consumers avoid paying full price for fuel, today projects the national average gasoline price for Thanksgiving will be at its...
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Maximizing Flame and Gas Detection Effectiveness: The Case for Optimizing Detection Coverage Over Device Availability
FGS (Flame and gas detection systems) are increasingly critical to the protection of people, the environment, and, ultimately, the profitability of oil and gas operations....
The Trouble with Oil Price Predictions
Predicting oil prices is notoriously difficult because oil prices reflect both supply and demand dynamics. Of course, supply issues garner the lion’s share of the...
US Leads the World in Oil, Gas Production
by Alex Mills
It’s official. The United States became the world’s leading producer of petroleum and natural gas in 2018. The Energy Information Administration at the Department of...
Petroleum Stockpiles Worldwide: Where and How Big
At the start of August 2019, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) has said it will acquire a 10 percent stake in VTTI, a Vitol-backed...
Bechtel and CCS JV Led surge in Global Oil & Gas Contracts Value to US$42bn in Q2 2019
The global oil and gas industry’s total contract value reached US$42bn in Q2 2019, a massive 79 percent increase on Q1’s value of US$23.4bn according...
Opportunity Knocks: How Downstream Companies Can Successfully Participate in IMO 2020 Market
by Patrick Long
In 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California setting off the Gold Rush, which brought an influx of new participants to seize...
The Impact of Software on Gas Flaring and Oil Refining
Gas flaring is the process of burning excess hydrocarbon gases, which cannot be recovered or recycled, and combining those gases with steam or air to...
Salt of the Earth: The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The U.S. SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) is an oil reserve created in response to the 1973-1974 oil embargo. America’s dependence on OPEC (Organization of the...
Policymakers Increasingly Intolerant of Criminal Activity Targeting Critical Infrastructure
In recent years, we’ve watched as environmental activists have adopted more aggressive tactics designed to block the development of infrastructure projects that benefit our nation,...