Industry: Chemicals & Plastics

Oil and gas companies are making decarbonization commitments that include mainly cutting Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions although they are under growing pressure to also cut Scope 3 emissions.  To this end, there is growing interest in understanding and benchmarking GHG emissions across the value chain from exploration and production through […]

The 2022 ADI Forum, ADI Analytics’ flagship oil and gas conference, featured over 30 expert speakers and panelists, sparking engaging discussions on key strategic issues across the entire oil and gas value chain. More than 100 attendees from leading oil and gas, energy, and chemicals companies participated in this insightful event, exchanging perspectives and industry […]

At the 2022 ADI Forum, Alex Robart, Energy Strategy Leader at Microsoft, shared insights on the changing dynamics of the energy transition, highlighting the increasing involvement of operational stakeholders in discussions that had traditionally been more policy-focused. Robarts emphasized that the industry had reached a critical moment, where collaboration and strategic partnerships were more essential […]

Leading operators such as Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Phillips 66 have announced CCS projects across the oil & gas value chain.

Energy transition is driving new interest in biofuels. Hydrothermal liquefaction is an interesting pathway although it needs further development.

Direct extraction is a newer, more sustainable method of extracting lithium.

Uday Turaga, CEO of ADI Chemical Market Resources, sat down for a fireside chat with David Hatrick, VP of Innovation at Huntsman, during FlexPO+ 2022 (now incorporated into the ADI Forum)—ADI Chemical Market Resources’s annual plastics and polymers conference. How did a physics major end up shaping the future of the chemical industry? In this […]

With carbon capture becoming more prevalent in today’s world, CO2 conversion is becoming one of the popular utilization methods for the captured emissions.

Given the IMO’s ambitious goals to halve the shipping industry’s 2050 GHG emissions from 2008 GHG emission levels, shipowners and ship engine manufacturers must carefully consider a broader range of marine fuels for the world’s future fleet, such as ammonia and methanol.

At the 2022 FlexPO+, (now incorporated into the ADI Forum), Uday Turaga, CEO, ADI Analytics, provided a comprehensive overview of the plastics and polymers market, providing an outlook of the market trends and insights for 2022. Key topics included the chemical industry’s underperformance despite long-term gains, driven by challenging feedstock costs and overcapacity from China. […]

At FlexPO+ 2022 (now incorporated into the ADI Forum), Richard Thomas, Senior Manager of Strategy and Business Development at TotalEnergies US, shared insights on the evolving polypropylene (PP) market during the polyethylene and polypropylene panel moderated by Uday Turaga, CEO of ADI Chemical Market Resources. While new PP capacity was not being added in the […]

The 2022 ADI Forum, ADI Analytics’ flagship oil and gas conference, featured more than 30 expert speakers and panelists who sparked engaging discussions on key strategic issues across the entire oil and gas value chain. Over 100 attendees from leading oil and gas, energy, and chemicals companies participated in the event, exchanging perspectives and industry […]