U.S. Silica Upgrading Its Mine Fleet
In June 1998, an experiment to access gas trapped over a mile deep in the Barnett Shale north of Fort Worth, Texas, using sand, water and chemicals ignited a natural gas boom that rippled across…
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Oxygenates, Metals Leaching Into U.S. Oil Supply Chain
The complex web of U.S. pipelines, tanks and export terminals that’s helped make America the world’s top oil producer is causing a headache for some crude buyers, industry analysts say.
As various types of crude…
EIA Seeks Input On Biofuel Reporting
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is seeking public comments on several changes it intends to make within its Petroleum Supply Reporting System (PSRS), including those related to data collection on biofuels. In December, EIA…
Drillers Awash in Natural Gas
roducers in North Dakota flared 527 million cubic feet of gas per day in 2017, according to industry reports. During that time North and South Dakota consumed about 530 million cubic feet of gas...
Drilling Is Slowing According To Data Firm
In the first half of the year, the spot market in Texas was boiling over, with not nearly enough trucks to cover the growing demand for freight. In the past month, the market’s been pretty…
U.S. Refiners Turning To Diesel
U.S. gasoline consumption has leveled off as the stimulus provided by low and falling oil prices between 2014 and 2016 has faded, so refiners are increasingly turning to diesel…
U.S. Driving World’s Oil Market
World’s Oil Market – IEA Outlook HOUSTON — A global energy watchdog says booming production in the United States will meet 80 percent global growth in demand for oil over the next five years....
Demand for German biodiesel going up
Demand for biodiesel from Germany continues to be very high, especially in the EU-28, according to export figures published by the German Federal Statistical Office (GFS). Demand for German BioDiesel Growing by 4.4% Y2Y...
Sand Mining Booming as Fracking Grows
on Jordan picked up a handful of damp sand as it cascaded off a broad conveyor belt, eventually bound for trucks or rail cars that will take it to eager buyers in South Texas...
New world-scale bio-diesel plant
Air Liquide Engineering and Construction has signed a new agreement with Cargill for engineering and supply of a world-scale bio-diesel plant in Wichita, Kan. The “state-of-the-art’’ bio-diesel plant is planned to start operation in...
