Renewable energy is taking strides towards a subsidy-free era
The renewable energy sector is entering a new phase of subsidy-free growth across the world, according to the 53rd EY Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI). Mainland China and the US remain at first and second positions respectively on the top 40 ranking, while France moves up two positions to third from fifth, led by a new focus…
Women in the Workforce MARGARET WU: BREAKING BARRIERS
For me, overcoming professional barriers is all in a day’s – or life’s – work. I began my career in 1976 as the first woman with advanced degrees to work at ExxonMobil’s renowned research lab in Edison, New Jersey. Fast-forward to today, a few years after my retirement, and I am the first woman from…
How is big oil transitioning to power the future?
Windmills. Electric cars. Solar panels. When the cost and performance of emerging technologies improves, incumbents get nervous. Eventually the oil age will end, and it won’t be because we’ve run out of oil. Something better will come along. Something cheaper. It’s inevitable, and the question is how the oil and gas companies of today become…
CREATING GASOLINE TODAY THAT WILL FUEL CARS OF TOMORROW
It sounds like the stuff of movies and sci-fi novels, but in a small pilot lab in Clinton, New Jersey, an elite group of ExxonMobil engineers is developing gasoline of the future. Creating fuel for cars that aren’t even on the market seems outrageous—impossible, even—but it’s happening now. But how do these scientists know what…
FARM FRESH FUEL
The science behind converting farming or plant leftovers into next-generation, lower-emission biodiesel could one day transform how heavy-duty drivers fill their tanks. Clariant, an expert in extracting sugars from agriculture residue – inedible plant fiber, like wheat straw and cornstalks that farmers have only limited use for – is partnering with ExxonMobil and Renewable Energy Group…
Renewable Share of U.S. Energy Generation on a Slow and Steady Ascent
While optimism over the role of renewable energy in the United States is high, the challenge of overtaking fossil fuels en route to a larger share of the mix remains large. Despite the enormity of the task, renewable energy generation continues to expand at steady, although incremental, pace. Recent data from the U.S. Energy Information…
STATES OF REDUCTION: POWERING LOWER EMISSIONS
Natural gas has become the No. 1 fuel source for electricity generation in the U.S. As a result, increased use of natural gas and other lower-carbon energy sources is driving down overall emissions. Specifically, from 2005 to 2016, the U.S. has reduced its CO2 emissions from power plants by 24 percent while increasing its power generation by 1…
Natural Gas: Fueling the Future
Subcontractors USA News Provider ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Darren Woods recently offered opening remarks at the World Gas Conference in Washington. It was fitting that this year’s event took place in the United States. After all, the U.S. is both the world’s largest consumer and producer of natural gas. New supplies from America’s shale revolution…
ExxonMobil Starts Up New Ethane Cracker in Baytown, Texas
Subcontractors USA News Provider ExxonMobil said today that operations have commenced at its new 1.5 million ton-per-year ethane cracker at the company’s integrated Baytown chemical and refining complex. The new cracker, part of ExxonMobil’s Growing the Gulf Initiative, will provide ethylene feedstock to new performance polyethylene lines at the company’s Mont Belvieu plastics plant, which…
CenterPoint Energy to send crews to Puerto Rico in early January to help support power restoration efforts
As logistics are finalized, the company will notify media By News Provider HOUSTON, Dec. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — As part of a nationwide, coordinated power restoration plan involving several investor-owned electric companies, CenterPoint Energy, Inc.’s (NYSE: CNP) electric utility is sending 68 employees in early January to accelerate the ongoing power restoration efforts in Puerto Rico. CenterPoint Energy’s team…
Kruse Energy conducts its largest auction of 2017 in Odessa, TX
By News Provider US$25+ million of equipment was sold in the Nov. 15 – 16 auction, incl. 180+ items for BJ Services ODESSA, TX, Nov. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – Kruse Energy Auctioneers, a Ritchie Bros. solution, conducted its largest auction of the year last week, selling more than 1,500 equipment items and trucks for US$25+ million in Odessa, TX. The…
Toyota Takes The LEED In Texas
Toyota Headquarters Campus Achieves LEED Platinum from the U.S. Green Building Council,The Largest Commercial LEED Platinum Project in The State Of Texas, To Date By News Provider PLANO, Texas, Sept. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Everything is bigger in Texas. Everything, that is, except Toyota’s environmental footprint. Toyota Motor North America’s (TMNA) headquarters campus in Plano, Texas has officially achieved LEED Platinum from…
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