Industry: Industrials & Digital

Polypropylene (PP) is the most used plastic after polyethylene and has made way into our daily lives ranging from packaging and food containers to clothing, furniture, and automotives. PP is made via polymerization of propylene in the presence of catalyst, and it has benefitted largely through the catalyst development efforts that began with Natta, who […]

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 […]

Energy prices have soared throughout Europe since the beginning of the year. The crisis is particularly acute in the EU’s largest economy, Germany, which relies heavily on Russian gas for its economy. Recent events have exacerbated the problem and the German government is taking actions to combat the effects of the crisis on its people […]

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 […]

Consumers weary from the pandemic are back traveling driving up jet fuel demand. Even so, sustainability is high on their minds leading aviation, a hard-to-abate segment of the global economy, to embrace sustainable fuels.

The Eastern U.S. is battling high coal prices which has suppressed gas to coal switching in recent months, even with the current natural gas market dealing with a decrease of supply and high trading prices. The constraints within the coal market have created an ever-increasing natural gas demand in the power sector. But how and […]

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

The global shipping industry is one of the hard-to-abate industries when it comes to decarbonization. While it constitutes a small share of global CO2 emissions today, it may see astronomical amount of growth if left unchecked. Global shipping industry demand is expected to see a 275% increase by 2050 compared to 2020 levels. To address […]

Amid the global shift away from coal-fired power, the coal industry is attempting to find its place in a new ESG-focused world.

Since 2019, midstream companies have been lowering their capital spending annually. For example, Kinder Morgan expects to spend roughly $390 million less in capex in 2022 than they did in 2019, as seen in Exhibit 1. This trend for companies in the industry is due to a multitude of factors which were covered in depth […]

ADI Analytics along with the U.S. Energy Association and Gas Technology Institute explored the opportunities for U.S.-based small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Central and Eastern Europe for the U.S. Department of Energy in 2020. While decarbonization, energy security, and supply diversification were identified as the key drivers of U.S.-based small-scale LNG adoption in the […]

At the 2022 ADI Forum, Alex Robart, Energy & Sustainability Leader, Microsoft and industry experts examined the challenges in methane emissions detection, highlighting the complexity of integrating multi-source data from satellites, IoT sensors, drones, and aerial surveys. Microsoft had focused on helping companies aggregate and contextualize this diverse data using Azure, enabling energy producers and […]