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Hydrocarbon Processing sat down with Jan Shumate, Director, Worldwide Engineering and Construction Solutions, Eastman Chemical, and Kyle Lednicky, Vice President, Business Development, Arion, to discuss the many challenges facing the global engineering and construction sector, and how the Engineering and Construction Contracting (ECC) Association is helping owners and project developers find solutions to these items.

Today’s alternative fuel projects evaluate their greenhouse gas emissions reduction by determining a carbon intensity (CI) score—the lower the CI score, the better. When all factors are considered, how much does manufacturing and consumption of an alternatively sourced transportation fuel represent a lower CI score vs. conventionally produced crude oil? This podcast will examine some of today’s options.

In today's rapidly changing energy landscape, refinery transactions have become a focal point of investment discussions. Despite uncertainties surrounding the long-term future of refineries in a transitioning world, many refineries continue to be acquired but at lower values than in the past.

This podcast explores trends in refinery transactions, the short- and long-term opportunities for investors and what to keep in mind when deciding whether to invest.

Maximizing propylene production can offer attractive opportunities to refiners. Refiners with the ability to integrate petrochemical units into existing operations will have a competitive advantage as transportation fuels are forecast to decrease and petrochemicals demand forecasted to significantly increase to 2050.

The oil and gas industry are increasingly relying on chemometrics and Raman spectroscopy to expedite quality assurance, processing and distribution, with predictive modeling playing an important role. This podcast looks at how predictive modeling is helping companies achieve faster turnaround, higher throughput and real-time results for the processes that they are looking to monitor, quantify or blend.

In this episode, we spoke with Clinton Johnson, Vice President of Process Engineering at S&B Engineers and Constructors. The conversation covered incentives and penalties shaping the clean energy subsidies landscape, how the IRA tax credits influence ammonia projects and low-emission natural gas and how it compares to renewable natural gas. 

Hydrocarbon Processing spoke with Delbert Grotewold, Renewable Fuels Domain Expert, Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions on the state of today's renewable fuels market, and their potential impact on global refining operations.

In this episode, Hydrocarbon Processing discussed the hydrocarbon processing industry's workforce with Doug Sinitiere, Senior Business Development Manager, Turner Industries. Doug provides his thoughts on key elements in the workforce, including important aspects on those looking into a career in the oil and gas industry, as well as those that may be thinking about pivoting their current oil and gas job to another pathway within the industry.

Hydrocarbon Processing caught up with Matthias Wyzycki, Global Head of Market Segment-Synchem, BU Catalysts, for Clariant, to discuss the role blue hydrogen has in the energy transition. This discussion includes the pathways to blue hydrogen production, technologies that are facilitating blue hydrogen production, projects and the future of blue hydrogen globally. After listening, to find out more about this topic, visit https://www.clariant.com/en/Business-Units/Catalysts/Energy-Transition/Blue-Hydrogen.

The development of hydrogen hubs is intended to be the first step toward the creation of a national network of clean hydrogen producers and customers to facilitate a clean hydrogen economy. Although hydrogen hubs are a significant step toward decarbonization, several items must be considered. This episode examines seven considerations that must be studied by hydrogen hub developers and participants.