Industry News

Companies developing liquefied natural gas projects in Texas and Louisiana said they will move full speed ahead with their plans after U.S. President Donald Trump lifted the previous administration's freeze on LNG export permits.

PHMSA has proposed new comprehensive requirements for CO2 and hazardous liquid pipelines, strengthen existing standards, and for the first-time, establishing new standards for transporting carbon dioxide in a gaseous state via pipeline.

The CSB has launched a new initiative to share summaries of the serious chemical incidents that have been reported to the CSB since the agency’s Accidental Release Reporting Rule (ARRR) went into effect in March 2020.

The U.S. Department of Energy has issued a $1.44 billion guaranteed loan to Calumet, Inc. for the construction and expansion of the renewable fuels facility owned by Montana Renewables, an unrestricted subsidiary of Calumet.

Investors are souring on the U.S. oil refining sector, citing forecasts for softer fuel demand and worries that President-elect Donald Trump may slap tariffs on imports of crude.

Introducing the IGS Tube Tech rover system, the next generation in autonomous cleaning technology, capable of removing more than 90% of fouling and restoring your fired heater convection sections to their original design thermal efficiency.

Colonial Pipeline has temporarily shut its main gasoline line – America’s largest fuel pipeline – because of leak in Georgia, the pipeline’s operator and local officials said.

Wabtec has agreed to acquire Evident’s Inspection Technologies division, formerly part of the Scientific Solutions Division of Olympus, a global leader in NDT, Remote Visual Inspection, and Analytical Instruments solutions for mission critical...

Motiva plans to begin an overhaul this month of the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker at its 626,000 bpd Port Arthur, Texas, refinery.

USA BioEnergy has acquired 1,600+ acres of land in East Texas for its new $2.8 billion advanced biorefinery, designed to convert wood waste into sustainable, net-zero aviation fuel.

Plaquemines LNG, the eighth LNG export terminal in the United States and one of two U.S. LNG export terminals that started LNG production in 2024, shipped its first cargo on December 26, 2024.

The Alaska state's Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) entered into an exclusive agreement with developer Glenfarne to advance the Alaska LNG project.

Mitsubishi has decided to pull the plug on its plans to build a $1.3 billion chemical plant in Louisiana.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has released a new safety video on the 2020 fire and toxic gas release at the Bio-Lab facility in Westlake, Louisiana.

API’s Mike Sommers has released a statement opposing the Biden administration’s planned move to ban new oil and natural gas activity across millions of acres of federal waters.

Phillips 66 has entered into a definitive agreement to buy EPIC NGL, which owns various long haul natural gas liquids pipelines, fractionation facilities and distribution systems, for $2.2 billion.