Forum Post: Sealing putty vs. liquid resin gel?
Sealing putty or liquid resin gel – which do you prefer, and why?
View ArticleBlog Post: Canadian oil sands: A major energy source that poses major challenges
Alberta, Canada, has the world’s third largest proven oil reserves, after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. Because oil production is nationalized in the latter two countries and largely inaccessible to...
View ArticleForum Post: Alberta oil sands long-term
Boom or bust: Are the Alberta oil sands a sustainable oil source over the long term?
View ArticleBlog Post: Canadian oil sands: In situ methods for bringing bitumen to the...
Until recently, surface mining has been the predominant method of extracting the oil sands. However, because more than 80 percent of Alberta’s oil sands are buried too deeply to be excavated...
View ArticleForum Post: Canadian oil sands and the environment
Do you believe the Canadian oil sands can be developed in an environmentally responsible manner? Why or why not?
View ArticleBlog Post: Canadian oil sands: Upgrading raw bitumen to synthetic crude...
In the last two weeks, we have discussed the challenges of recovering bitumen from the Canadian oil sands by means of surface mining and in situ mining. This week, we look at what it takes to upgrade...
View ArticleForum Post: Subsidizing upgraders and refineries
Environmental economist Andrew Leach asks whether Canadians should “be willing to subsidize...merchant upgraders and refineries in this country in order to export a higher value end-product?” What’s...
View ArticleBlog Post: Canadian oil sands: The future, good or bad, depends on pipelines
As we have discussed over the last few weeks, crude oil production is growing rapidly on the vast oil sands in Alberta, Canada due to innovations in mining and growth in upgrader capacity. The...
View ArticleForum Post: Should Endbridge Northern Gateway be built?
The Keystone XL and Endbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines: Should they be built? Why or why not?
View ArticleBlog Post: Canadian oil sands: The challenges of bringing the required...
Alberta’s oil sands deposits hold tremendous potential for global energy markets. The question is: can the Canadian oil be produced economically? In recent weeks, we have been discussing the challenges...
View ArticleForum Post: Retaining labor in Alberta oil sands?
Aside from offering competitive salaries, what should oil companies be doing to attract and retain the labor needed to develop the remote Alberta oil sands?
View ArticleBlog Post: Low natural gas prices fuel growth in chemical manufacturing
As a share of total energy flow, natural gas is undergoing a dramatic transformation. In North America, prices have plummeted in recent years due to sharp increases in production that are outstripping...
View ArticleForum Post: Specifying for chemical production facilities
Have you specified or installed electrical products in chemical production facilities? Tell us about the challenges and opportunities.
View ArticleBlog Post: Low natural gas prices and new ethylene production investments:...
For businesses and residential consumers, low natural gas prices mean lower costs for space heating and cooling, water heating, cooking and other essentials. Industries that use natural gas to generate...
View ArticleForum Post: Risk in restarting and building ethylene plants?
Chemical manufacturers are restarting shuttered ethylene plants and building new ones to take advantage of low natural gas prices. Do you think it’s a good bet, or will the greatly increased production...
View ArticleBlog Post: Technologies to reduce the cost and risk of chemical...
In last week’s post, we explored the opportunities and risks that chemical manufacturers face as they build new ethylene production plants to take advantage of low natural gas prices. To reduce...
View ArticleForum Post: Cast enclosures vs other methods of protection
Share your thoughts about cast enclosures versus other methods of protection (factory-sealed nonmetallic enclosures, component-level protection, etc.) for hazardous locations.
View ArticleBlog Post: Technologies to reduce the cost and risk of chemical...
Ethylene production has historically been a boom-or-bust business. Right now, the industry is booming due to very low prices for natural gas, the principle ethylene feedstock used in North America....
View ArticleForum Post: Building new ethylene production plants - good idea?
Petrochemical companies are planning several new ethylene production plants to take advantage of low prices in North America for natural gas feedstocks. Do you think they’re making a good bet, or will...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Giving thanks
Science is HOW and WHY of things, it is experiements and observations. Engineering is a specialized branch of science. As Engineering students we are carved to be problem solvers. This problem solving...
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