Rapid growth in the adoption of alternatives to fossil fuels is driven by the lower lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of alternative fuels. Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL), pyrolysis, photocatalysis, and gasification are some of the technologies to produce biofuels at various stages of technology advancement and commercialization today. HTL is one of the more promising technologies […]
December 2018: U.S. Refining Market Overview- USTDA Egypt Refineries Modernization Reverse Trade Mission
December 2, 2018- The Egypt Refineries Modernization Reverse Trade Mission was held in both, Washington, D.C. and Houston, TX from December 2-13, 2018. This event was organized to help U.S. companies win the procurement contracts associated with Egypt’s plan to upgrade its oil refineries and modernizing its petroleum ports. ADI Analytics had the pleasure to take […]
North America: A future LNG superpower? AlChE South Texas Local Section
September 6, 2018- The American Institute of Chemical Engineers- South Texas Location Section is a monthly meeting, held this time at The Bougainvilleas in Houston, TX. The dinner speaker for the meeting was CEO of ADI Analytics, Uday Turaga. The presentation titled, “North America: A future LNG Superpower,” focused on North America’s potential to become a truly global player for LNG. The presentation […]
Top 10 ESG Trends in Energy
Investors and consumers are pressuring companies to seriously incorporate Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices into their culture and operations. ESG has gone from a nice-to-have feature to a must-have pre-requisite as it is influencing investments and will ultimately decide winners and losers in the energy market going forward. The pressure of ESG is being […]
2017 ADI Forum Highlights: Power and Industrial Demand for Natural Gas
ADI Analytics hosted its first North America Natural Gas and NGL forum in Houston late February. The forum was well-attended with representatives from a wide range of companies including integrated oil and gas majors, refiners, E&P independents, industrial gas suppliers, equipment providers, technology licensors, investors, and media outlets. The forum featured several presentations by ADI […]
A portfolio of renewables can supply India’s demand for electricity
The big energy challenge of the future will be supplying enough low-carbon power to meet the emerging economies’ growing demands. Although renewable capacity continues to grow, as this blog has noted in the past, notwithstanding depressed financing, waning popular interest, disappearing subsidies, and slower technological progress, there is growing concern that renewables cannot be an important […]
Renewable energy is growing and spreading but still challenging
Popular and media interest in renewable energy has waned in recent months but two reports issued this month show that the industry is growing in capacity and investment, spreading geographically, and delivering energy at increasingly cheaper prices. REN21’s Global Status Report is a mammoth, 170-page document but is written and produced well making it easy […]
Advancing the next generation of geothermal energy technologies
Geothermal energy doesn’t quite have the glamor of wind, solar, or biomass and thus receives little media or popular interest. Even so, the resource has a number of advantages, including the reliability of base load power, low operating costs, and virtually no greenhouse gas emissions. More importantly, geothermal energy is immensely promising if new technologies […]
No energy is more expensive than no energy
Homi Bhabha, the architect of India’s nuclear industry, reportedly once declared that no form of energy was more expensive than having no energy. Consumers in the developing world without (or at the margins of) access to electricity can empathize with that sentiment. Renewable power technologies are becoming cheaper but several developing world consumers are “ignoring” […]
China is the New Energy Dragon
It’s official. China is the world’s largest consumer of energy. This happened a lot sooner — at least five years — than projected thanks to the disproportionate impact of the Great Recession on the U.S. relative to China. More significantly, this is an inexorable phenomenon as the IEA announcement notes: Since 2000, China’s energy demand […]
