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HP Impact: HP Impact: Asian market propels HPI, automation growth
Rapid economic growth is creating new opportunities in developing countries for chemical manufacturers and automation suppliers. Increased exports of chemicals as well as more investments in manufactu..
HP Impact: HP Impact: Natural gas demand in U.S. forecast to grow 40% by 2015
Over the past 10 years, U.S. gas demand has in-creased from 16 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) to almost 22 Tcf. Continuing with low energy prices, strong economic growth and improved technological advances..
HP Impact: HP Impact: Study models vehicle emissions reductions
The Auto/ Oil Air Quality Improvement Research Program (AQIRP), conducted by three domestic auto companies and fourteen oil companies, has issued the six-year program's findings. The conclusion: "chan..
HP Impact: HP Impact: Oil supply/ demand gap widens in Asia-Pacific
In 1996, oil consumption in Asia-Pacific region amounted to 18.2 million barrels per day (MMbpd). Incremental oil demand was 712 thousand bpd (Mbpd) during 1996, down from 798 Mbpd in 1995. A recent a..
HP In Brief: HPIn Brief
World environmental market forecast to grow from $888 billion in 1996 to over $1 trillion by 2000, according to a report from the McIlvaine Co., Northbrook, Illinois. Purchases of environmental prod..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Emerging global energy market promises opportunities, risks
New opportunities for global energy companies are identified in two CERA (Cambridge, Massachusetts) reports, "Embracing Change" and "Emerging Global Energy Companies: Eye on the 21st Century." The fol..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Learning: future workplace 'commodity'
Global competition and rapid technological advances will continue to influence the workplace of the future, says the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). Ten major trends are predicte..
HP Impact: HPImpact: R&D expenditures to be $192 billion
Following years of stagnation, investment in research and development (R&D) in the U.S. will show a real increase in 1997, according to an annual forecast from Battelle, Columbus, Ohio. R&D expenditur..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Improvement forecast for Asia, Europe, U.S. refining margins
The most important downstream trends are analyzed in a recent report, Refining and Marketing Investments and Insights, from Salomon Brothers. A summary of significant findings from the analysis: The..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Air quality standards controversy continues
The dust has not settled over the EPA's controversial proposal for ozone and particulate matter (PM). Earlier in January, EPA held hearings on the proposed National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQ..
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