Weirauch, Wendy
HP Impact: HPImpact: Panel offers proposals for preventing process safety accidents
On March 23, 2005, the BP Texas City refinery experienced a catastrophic process accident. One of the most serious US workplace disasters of the past two decades, the accident resulted in 15 deaths an..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Benefits of coal liquefaction technology
A new report researched by Energy Business Reports examines how coal liquefaction offers environmental benefits, cost savings and energy security. Road trials of coal-based fuels have shown that signi..
HP Impact: HPImpact: US natural gas output lagging despite prices
A new analysis tracks productivity for one of the HPI's major feedstocks. A key finding from the study is that rising production costs are causing diminishing returns for US natural gas producers. Des..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Process automation market to reach nearly $79 billion
Manufacturing companies continue to increase investments in capital expenditures for automation equipment. As a result, the worldwide market for total process automation will grow 6.4%/yr over the nex..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Coal-based product demand in US forecast to skyrocket
The overall US market for coal-based products has grown from almost $3.4 billion in 2003 to an approximately $5.9 billion in 2006. By 2011, the US market is expected to reach nearly $12 billion—a..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Government, private firms join to enhance cybersecurity
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is facilitating monthly teleconferences with international control system vendors and equipment manufacturers to discuss ways to increase cybersecurity in ..
HP In Brief: February 2007 HPInBrief
  LNG market dynamics Unless the US builds necessary infrastructure to import natural gas, it will be at..
HP Impact: HPImpact: EIA: Fossil fuels to retain their share in US energy mix to 2030
Despite the projected rapid growth of biofuels and other nonhydroelectric renewable energies and expectations of the first new orders for nuclear power plants in over 25 years, fossil fuels are foreca..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Global economies to slow in 2007, but fend off recessions
Though GDP growth has decelerated in the US, it has remained strong in most other parts of the world and accelerated in some others—notably the "Eurozone." Economists with Global Insight believe ..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Energy execs profile North America's LNG industry
Over the past four years, US LNG import volumes have not been strongly related to US gas prices, according to David Hendicott, director of Global Gas LNG Strategy with ConocoPhillips. Speaking at a re..
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