As discussed last month, polymers are increasingly designed keeping very specific properties in mind. Thus, multi-layered polymers are often required when multiple properties are needed in a single structure. Depending on the type of polymer used for the targeted properties, tie layer resins are often required to produce these multi-layered structures. Exhibit 1 below shows […]
Portfolio growth and churn at Saudi Aramco
Saudi Aramco, the Saudi Arabian state oil company is the world’s largest integrated oil and gas company. It recently disclosed its financials for the first time providing great insight into its footprint, economics, and financial and operational performance. This recent transparency is driven by a desire to better integrate the company with global financial markets […]
A promising future beckons for Vaca Muerta
The Vaca Muerta shale play in Argentina has one of the greatest oil reserves in the world. The field has attracted investments from global majors such as Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell, many of which have started shifting into full development on their blocks in the play last year. There has been study progress in Vaca […]
Tie the Bond: Global tie layer resins market assessment
Polymers are increasingly being designed keeping very specific properties in mind. This often requires multi-layered polymers when multiple properties are needed in a single structure. Depending on the characteristics desired, the final structure can include anywhere from three to 11 layers. Multi-layered structures using different resins are difficult to manufacture especially when two dissimilar layers, […]
Current trends in U.S. shale plays: Part 2- Bakken shale
In the previous blog, we discussed about the key drivers and upcoming trends in Permian basin which includes increase in proppant intensity, pipelines bottlenecks and recent mergers and acquisitions to improve acreage positions. In comparison, Bakken operators are more focused on improving completion techniques and optimizing frac design to improve well productivity. Production growth in […]
Current technologies for recycling plastic waste
Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastic and reprocessing the material into useful products. According to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), only 10% of the U.S. municipal solid waste stream is being recycled, and the rest is being accumulated in landfills or dumped into the natural environment as litter. There are two basic approaches to […]
U.S. Crude Slate: Options in heavy oil constrained world
U.S. refiners’ crude slate has lightened due to rising tight oil supply from shale plays but not at the expense of heavy oil. In 2010, 29% of the total U.S. crude processed was heavy oil and that share increased to 33% in 2018. U.S. Gulf Coast refineries have been processing most of the heavy crude […]
Thank you for 10 great years!
Ten years ago today, sitting on the couch in my apartment, I incorporated ADI Analytics LLC. Speaking volumes of the ease of doing business in Texas and the United States, I was able to complete the entire process online and I was glad that it took less than an hour acutely aware of the uncertain […]
Current trends in U.S. shale plays: Part 1 – Permian Basin
U.S. oil output grew from 5.7 million barrels per day in 2011 to a record 12 million barrels per day in early 2019. Of this, Permian accounted for 3.8 million barrels per day, which is expected to grow to 5.6 million barrels per day by 2023.Key reasons for the surge in Permian crude oil production […]
Soaring DUC inventory in Permian
A drilled but uncompleted well (DUC) is a new well that has been drilled but not completed. Completion costs are higher than drilling costs and operators routinely drill but do not complete wells for various reasons. Operators are drilling new wells to hold leases and meet the contracts with the land owners. In fact, the […]
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