Weirauch, Wendy
HP Impact: HPImpact: Asia Olefins Update
The region has undoubtedly launched itself on the road to recovery. To take full advantage, Asia must face up to some key issues: Sufficient real economic and structural change may not have taken pl..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Ethylene and Propylene
Western Europe. Although installed production capacity for ethylene in 2000 looked to be more than enough to cope with demand, actual production fell well short. Demand was over 3% more than 1999; how..
HP Impact: HPImpact: DeWitt petrochemical conference outlook
Industry experts at the annual DeWitt & Co. World Petrochemical Review presented their market analyses for key industry segments. Naturally, the global economic supply / demand forecast varies for dif..
HP In Brief: HPIn Brief
FTC finds no evidence of anticompetitive conduct with last summer's gasoline price spike in the U.S. Midwest. A nine-month investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into the causes of locali..
HP Impact: HPImpact: CMAI performs petrochemical industry SWOT analysis
The petrochemical and plastics industry is "reeling from the sting of hyper energy markets and slowing economies coming at a time of stepped up capacity addition," according to CMAI analysts. Market p..
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U.S. energy policy must develop 'a continental perspective,' says Daniel Yergin of Cambridge Energy Research Associates. Many of the pressing issues for gas and power are not limited to the U.S., so d..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Chemical price, margin forecasts to 2005
"Chemical prices are softening, even as feedstock costs remain high," says Fred Peterson of Probe Economics (www.probeeconomics.com). In a recent assessment, he notes that it is too early in the indus..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Forces shaping the global ECC industry
Key findings from a new multiclient study from Transmar Consult Inc. highlight what strategic issues and new trends are shaping the downstream engineering and construction contractor (ECC) industry. T..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Quick fixes make energy problems worse in California
Actions taken thus far by California officials to remedy the state's energy crisis not only fail to address its underlying shortage problem, but in some cases are making matters worse. So says Lawrenc..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Standard interfaces for computer-aided process engineering
HPI engineers and designers must use a collection of software (in-house, commercial and/or academic) to do computer-aided process engineering (CAPE) because the market for process simulation has been ..
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