Baton Rouge-area students complete BASF TECH Academy
Fifteen Baton Rouge-area high school students recently completed BASF’s TECH Academy – a week-long educational and workforce development program hosted at River Parishes Community...
Why are refineries closing amid oil price windfall?
Even as oil and gas companies’ profits soar, refineries across the country are being retired and converted to other uses as owners balk at...
The Natural Gas State: Shale and LNG become big business in Louisiana
Louisiana’s liquefied natural gas industry and the Haynesville Shale play are now inseparably linked as they move in tandem toward a future where natural...
Brave New World: Growing for the inevitable energy transition in Louisiana
It represents a monumental shift in mindset. Owners in the industrial space are no longer digging in their heels in resistance to a changing global...
The Legal Quagmire: The courtroom battles over environmental policy
Courtrooms across the U.S. are finding themselves on the front lines of a nationwide struggle over federal and state rights in regulating environmental policy....
Powered by methanol: An investment surge in Louisiana
When Danish shipping giant Maersk announced in August that its first decarbonized ships would run on green methanol, then ordered a dozen 16,000-TEU container...
Louisiana Senate rejects permanent local say for industrial tax breaks
The Louisiana Senate rejected Senate Bill 151 last week, which would have allowed voters statewide to decide whether sheriffs, school boards and parish councils would...
U.S. chemical railcar loads hit all-time high
There are some signs that pressures might be abating for the U.S. chemical industry. Recent rail traffic data released by the Association of American...
Louisiana chemical production outlook ‘best we’ve seen in several years’
Louisiana’s chemical manufacturing sector could be “poised for a booming year,” says Rhoman Hardy, senior vice president, U.S. Gulf Coast, Shell Chemicals and Products.
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Denbury inks three carbon sequestration agreements in Louisiana
Denbury Inc. recently announced three new lease agreements with large private landowners in Louisiana, securing additional exclusive rights to develop significant carbon dioxide (CO2)...
