Weirauch, Wendy
HP Impact: HPImpact: DOE seeks proposals for technology grants
Candidates for awards totaling $10 million are being sought by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, DOE is soliciting proposals from inven..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Primary gas demand to grow 2%/yr in U.S.
The Gas Research Institute (Chicago, Illinois) has developed a strategic outlook for U.S. energy supply and demand to 2015. Key highlights from the report follow. Primary gas demand is projected to..
HP Impact: HPImpact: How will India change the LNG market?
India is the third-largest consumer of natural gas in the Asian region, relying until now on domestic production. Gas still accounts for less than 10% of primary energy consumption, and the economy is..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Jet, residual fuel gain in 1999 markets
The most recent monthly forecast from analysts Purvin & Gertz Inc. (P&G) assesses refining products demand and forecasts potential growth areas. Highlights from the outlook follow. Petroleum demand..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Significant trends in aromatics processing
"Fortunately, the present difficulties being experienced by the aromatics petrochemical industry are not expected to be long lasting," according to D.W. Penner, UOP LLC, Des Plaines, Illinois. "The un..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Global ERP market to reach $36 billion
Last year's worldwide industrial enterprise resource planning (ERP) market was over $12.1 billion. The forecast for ERP's industrial software and services market is a 25%/yr increase, reaching $36.7 b..
HP In Brief: HPIn Brief
After trending downward for a year and a half, U.S. retail gasoline prices turned upward during March and early April as world crude oil prices firmed, according to API and EIA statistics. Increases i..
HP Impact: HPImpact: DeWitt conference petrochemical outlook
The economic supply/ demand forecast varies for different HPI market segments. Recent presentations at the annual DeWitt & Co. Petrochemical Review conference, March 23–25, in Houston, Texas, cov..
HP Impact: HPImpact: CMAI conference petrochemical outlook
The worldwide outlook for key industry segments was addressed at CMAI's 14th annual conference. This year's meeting, March 24–25, in Houston, Texas, featured 34 papers, which are available from C..
Construction activity forges ahead
"Why don't we hear more about industry success stories?" So asked a participant from an EPC firm during an industry Q&A session that I recently attended. In this time of increasing government regulati..
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