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Westlake Chemical considering PVC, ethylene expansions: CEO

Westlake Chemical is scoping expansion opportunities to meet growing demand for construction staple polyvinyl chloride and possibly increasing its internal ethylene production, CEO Albert...

ACIT: ‘Gold-collar’ workers growing more vital in petrochemical industry

My first visit to a Texas petrochemical plant felt like stepping into a little country — it has its own strict security borders (photo...

PU: Sourcing workers is downstream industry’s most pressing challenge—execs

The U.S. energy and petrochemical industry has experienced incredible growth over the last decade. The extended period of profitability has caused another surge in...

PU: What the Texas energy production boom means for the world’s supply chain

If Texas were a country and Texans like to think of it that way, it would be the third largest energy producing country in...

Murray Energy Corporation responds to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s failure to enact grid resiliency rule

Murray Energy Corporation ("Murray Energy") is extremely disappointed that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") has failed to enact the immediate reforms necessary to...

Can’t please everyone: Trump energy policy riles competing sectors

When the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump proposed new subsidies for coal and nuclear plants, it seemed like an obvious way to deliver...

Winter storm challenges U.S. East Coast energy complex

The U.S. energy industry is facing a massive test of its infrastructure as an intense winter storm roars up the Atlantic Coast, threatening power...

Oil trades near strongest levels since mid-2015 on Iranian unrest

Oil prices posted their strongest start to a year since 2014 on Tuesday, with crude rising to mid-2015 highs amid large anti-government rallies in...

ExxonMobil and ITQ discover material that could reduce the amount of energy and emissions associated with ethylene production

Collaboration leads to discovery of a new material able to separate ethylene from ethaneTargeting up to a 25 percent reduction in both process energy...

U.S. crude stockpiles fall as gasoline inventories build

U.S. crude oil stockpiles fell more than expected last week as refineries hiked output, but gasoline and distillate inventories posted surprisingly large builds, reports Reuters. Crude...

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