Industry: Refining & fuels

After a tumultuous recovery in 2021, the global chemical industry was expecting a strong rebound in 2022. Feedstock supply constraints, high energy prices, and slowing economic conditions, however, dampened the industry’s performance in 2022.  A number of these challenges will persist and likely intensify in 2023 and continue to challenge the industry.  Key trends with […]

Going into this past year, 2022 was meant to be the beginning of the end for petroleum refiners, but another spanner was thrown in the works. With most countries coming out of lockdown and entering post-COVID life, the expectations were that a lot of the trial and tribulations of the past two years would leave […]

ADI Analytics launched a multi-client study on Future of Direct Air Capture (DAC), offering key insights for technology providers, operators, and investors. The study covers market outlook through 2030, policies, funding, technologies, project activity, and strategic considerations in this emerging carbon removal sector. Below are the key topics covered in the study: We welcome you […]

ADI Analytics launched a study on alternative marine fuels, examining key drivers such as regulations and low-cost natural gas. The report analyzes fuel options including LNG, CNG, methanol, and bio-based fuels, highlighting their strengths, weaknesses, market potential, and strategic implications for different value chain stakeholders. This study answers several overarching questions, including: We welcome you […]

ADI Analytics launched a Natural Gas Monetization research service to analyze supply, demand, pricing, regulations, and technology trends across LNG, GTL, MTG, and industrial gas applications. Deliverables include monthly briefs, quarterly and annual reports, data tools, and direct expert access—designed to help stakeholders assess projects, economics, risks, and strategic opportunities. The main areas of focus […]

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 […]

New regulations allow the sale of higher ethanol blending gasoline this summer, but will this actually increase ethanol demand?

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.

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.

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 […]

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