End the mandate

As US President Donald Trump pandered to farm states about ethanol in gasoline, lawmakers began considering other changes to vehicles and fuel chemistry that might better serve US interests. Source: News

US LNG for Europe

In 2017, natural gas imports to the European Union reached about 360 billion cu m, 10% higher than in 2016, supported by a combination of increasing consumption and falling indigenous production. Source: News

Watching Government: Easing a NAAQS squeeze

It may border on hyperbole to suggest that there were sighs of relief when US President Donald Trump signed his Apr. 12 memorandum of understanding that included reforming implementation of National Ambient Air Quality Standards under the Clean Air Act. Then again, it may not. Source: News

Alberta moves toward limiting energy to British Columbia

The government of Alberta is moving toward restriction of energy movement to British Columbia in an escalating interprovincial conflict over expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline system. Source: News

SAIS researchers find gaps in unconventional oil, gas regulations

Differences in terminology and oversight approaches have created marked gaps in government regulation of growing unconventional oil and gas activity in the US, a research team of four graduate students at Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies reported on Apr. 19. The discrepancies potentially could cause problems for work crews and nearby communities’ […]

South Korean firm wraps ethylene capacity expansion

KBR Inc., Houston, has completed a revamp project designed to expand ethylene production capacity at Korea Petrochemical Industry Co. Ltd.’s (KPIC) Onsan Naphtha Cracking Center in Ulsan, South Korea.  Source: News

Fire hits Valero’s Texas City refinery

Valero Energy Corp. is investigating the cause of a fire that broke out on Apr. 19 at its 260,000-b/d Texas City, Tex., refinery. Source: News