Just about a decade on from the Paris settlement, made by governments everywhere in the world to restrain worldwide warming, the world’s largest oil and gasoline corporations have nonetheless not…
Shell has acquired its attraction in opposition to a ruling in 2021 by a Dutch court docket docket that may have compelled it to cut its world carbon dioxide emissions…
Scotland’s solely oil refinery at Grangemouth is to cease operations subsequent 12 months. The Petroineos facility will in all probability be remodeled to a terminal for importing accomplished fuel akin…
Steam cracking, the thermal course of utilized by the chemical enterprise to rework hydrocarbons into useful smaller molecules akin to ethylene and propylene, could possibly be very energy-intensive. The amount…
The lethal hydrogen sulfide launch at a US refinery operated by Pemex in October occurred when two contract staff opened the fallacious a part of piping, a preliminary investigation by…
The company that owns a petrochemicals supply terminal in Deer Park, Texas, which was the situation of a extreme fireside in March 2019, will pay the state of Texas and…
The lethal naphtha launch and fireside that killed two staff on the BP-Husky refinery near Toledo, US, in September 2022 was the outcomes of ‘a group of cascading events’ over…
Disruptions to Crimson Sea cargo transport, introduced on by ongoing assaults by Houthis in Yemen proceed to significantly impact the chemical substances commerce, notably in Europe and Asia, in step…
Numerous segments of the chemical substances enterprise are generally described as being considerably troublesome to decarbonise – often owing to their extreme demand for energy, considerably heat. This heat is…
Supplying the extreme temperatures needed for industrial processes – like cement, metallic and petrochemical manufacturing – accounts for spherical a fifth of full world vitality demand. Most of this vitality…
