Geopolitics is an overarching characteristic of much of this outlook for the key themes in the global energy economy in 2025. The start of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House will herald new pressures to multiple layers of the global economy, from trade to labour, monetary policy to...

In 2020, the Chinese coal chemical industry processed nearly one quarter of national coal throughput, and accounted for about 5.4 per cent of national CO2 emissions. Yet the coal chemicals’ industry ability to limit oil and gas imports is appealing to the Chinese leadership in the context of...

Investment in the petroleum industry is heavily exposed to various risks due to their capital-intensive nature, high initial investment, and long-lived and highly specific asset. Risk assessment methods should consider the analysis and effect of key risks on profitability indicators of such...

Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) are cornerstone tools in guiding decarbonization policies. However, the petrochemical sector, which is crucial to the future of oil and gas due to its non-energy fossil feedstock demands, has been overlooked in IAMs. This study aims to evaluate the...

How to contemplate several types of data and generate an efficient analysis? It was possible to notice an opportunity to use Machine Learning (ML) with artificial intelligence. This study uses ML techniques and automated data extraction to focus on forecast price trends in assets of the...

Emission reduction in the petrochemical industry is essential to meet climate targets, as the chemical industry is a major contributor to industrial greenhouse gas emissions. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) allows for assessing the environmental impacts of alternative production pathways. Still,...

Sales professionals play an important role in securing revenue and continued profitability for any industry. This research aimed to develop a scale for micro-skills in selling that contains research-based items specifically for sales professionals in Thai petrochemical industries. An exploratory...

The article analyzes the growth of opportunities for the production of petrochemical products in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The article analyzes the dynamics of global demand for basic petrochemical products over the past 15 years. The aim of the article is to represent the effectiveness of the...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is as follows: First, understanding the nature of the relationship between corporate adoption of the concept of societal responsibility [availability of environmental awareness, clear vision of the impact of societal responsibility on financial performance,...

Using oil, gas, and coal to create platform chemicals on an enormous scale, the petrochemical industry constitutes a core part of the global energy order. Given prospects for demand growth for petrochemicals, the sector is set to become increasingly important to the fossil fuel interests....

As China has become the world’s factory, demand has increased greatly both for parts and materials as well as for final consumer products, such as cars and electronic goods. In particular, South Korea (hereafter ‘Korea’) is highly dependent on China for petrochemical exports. Everyone...

One of the main implications of China’s policy paradigm shift, Xin Chang Tai is that the government starts to concentrate its domestic market to pursue quality of economy development rather than expansion of their economic size. Since the Korean petrochemical industry has heavily relied on...

Ghana's Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) has a capacity of 45,000 barrels per day. TOR had a total debt portfolio of $320 million by 2003. So far, the public has paid a total of $700 million under the Debt Recovery (TOR) Fund Act of 2003 (Act 624). The Act required that the tax only be used to pay out...

The Downstream Petrochemicals industry has experienced great success since the implementation of the Point Lisas strategy in the mid-1970s. However, over the last 10 years, the Downstream Petrochemicals industry has faced several challenges. First, Trinidad and Tobago’s natural gas reserves...

Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) wastewater sludge generated from the treatment of PTA wastewater can generate energy through pyrolysis and gasification. In this study, the combustion and pyrolysis behavior and kinetics of the sludge produced from the thermochemical treatment PTA wastewater were...

These days, China’s exports of petroleum products are rapidly growing. The country has seen a decline in the growth of domestic demand for petroleum products as it adapts to the new normal, where less rapid growth is projected. At the same time, its refining capacity already outpaces domestic...

The problem of staffing the gas and petrochemical cluster is acutely raised in all oil-producing states. This article's purpose is to study program-targeted and problem-oriented approaches to forming infrastructure provision for personnel needs in Iran's gas and petrochemical cluster. Their...

Private oil companies in Korea such as GS Caltex, S-Oil and Hyundai Oilbank have recently announced plans to invest in petrochemical production facilities and have begun entering the chemical market in earnest. These investments include building a Naphtha Cracking Center (NCC) where naphtha, a...

"This book focuses on the advantageous features of membrane technology in petroleum industries, with an emphasis on membrane materials and the application of membranes in the separation of olefin-paraffin, oil-water, aliphatic-aromatics, heavy metals, etc., along with other applications like...

Based on 1986-1992 survey data of 22 midstream petrochemical industries in Taiwan, the empirical results of the export price, the markup ratio and the price-cost margin equations in this study show that Taiwan's petrochemical firms absorb only a small portion of a given weighted exchange rate...

The crude oil -- Crude oil distillation -- Thermal conversion processes -- Catalytic conversion processes -- Hydroprocessing technologies -- Lubricating production refineries -- Refining configurations -- Hydrogen production -- Caustic treating processes -- Environmental processes -- A new...

Očerednye vybory Prezidenta Respubliki Belarusʹ 2020 g. vyzvali neodnoznačnuju reakciju kak naselenija Belorussii, tak i mirovogo soobščestva. Akcii organizovannogo protesta zachlestnuli nekotorye krupnye predprijatija, ulicy Minska i drugich gorodov respubliki. V Belorussii proischodjat...

Since there is a growing emphasis on Carbon Dioxide (CO2) sequestration as a carbon management strategy coupled with the acceptance that geological sequestration is perhaps one of the most promising carbon management techniques, the need to capture CO2 at sources in a cost effective and safe...

The petroleum refining sector is energy intensive and has been identified as one of the target industries for CO2 emissions control by China's emissions trading scheme. A detailed accounting of the cost of emissions reduction is of great significance for the petroleum refining sector to comply...

“One person never does great things in business; they happen because of team of people” Jobs (2003). The objective of this research paper is to identify the effect of teamwork on employee productivity of Orpic and to identify challenges in collaboration within the Orpic Company. Having a...

In this objective, the researcher considers (1) the influence of safety climate, risk management, and organization safety support on safety culture (2) the influence of safety climate, risk management, organization safety support, and safety culture on safety knowledge (3) the influence of...