Energy Transition

As business revamp themselves for their post-pandemic comeback, they are doing it with a conscience. ESG – environmental social and governance reporting – is the ...

On the road to recovery, it’s best to drive. Drive electric to be precise: a booming EV market is expected to account for almost half ...

There is an old Roman adage: ‘Caveat emptor’: Buyer beware. This is the principle that the buyer is responsible for checking the goods before a ...

Reliability of energy delivery saves lives. Fires in California and Australia, rolling blackouts in the UK and grid failure in the dead of water in ...

Exclusive Interview with Andy Saunders-Tack, Director, Asia-Pacific and Mel Larson, Strategic Consulting Manager at Becht The coup in Myanmar may be pivotal for the energy ...

Exclusive interview with Napaporn Ratanapoka, Vice President Refinery, PTT Global Chemical Public Company In the new digital era, machine is man’s solution. Increasingly, oil and ...

Refiners are cleaning up to face a new era and they are turning to technology to catalyse the process. In a competitive market, with increasing ...

On the roadmap to post-pandemic recovery, innovation is our guide. It’s a digital GPS, analysing, predicting and guiding operators on the best path forward. But ...

When catalyst loading represents an investment of up to US$ 20MM, making the right catalyst choice can be critical for business success. But operators lack ...

Please introduce yourself and your role at AspenTech. I am the Director of Marketing Strategy. In my 14-plus years at AspenTech, I have been in ...

Exclusive interview with Kemas Adrian, Environmental & Sustainability Program Coordinator, Pertamina Hulu How do you think the Indonesian petrochemicals market compares to that of other ...

Exclusive interview with Rudy Radjab, President Director of PT Kreasindo Resources Indonesia’s new national projects have the potential to cover half of Southeast Asia’s petrochemical ...

Transition is a familiar friend to the downstream industry. Fluctuating oil and gas prices, geo-political shifts and health and safety risks have helped shape a ...

Last March, as many businesses halted operations in the wave of COVID-19 disruption, Thai Oil was celebrating new beginnings. The country’s largest oil refinery held ...

In the next phase of the market, downstream operations will be self-sustaining, self-learning and self-optimized for autonomous success. The rise in tech talent and advances ...

“Cyber-attacks are always in the news and headlines”, states the Head of Cybersecurity Risk and Governance at a major Saudi Arabian oil company. He isn’t ...

As the world charts its journey to post-pandemic recovery, industries are on the lookout for signs of market trends to come. Here’s what to look ...

In partnership with: Sustainability is a broad topic and has been described as being made up of three pillars: the economy, the society, and the ...

Far from being limited to transportation fuels, refining and petrochemical processes create a variety of products that are used in everyday life. Fueled by the ...

2020 forced us to a standstill.  As borders shut and regions locked down, our vehicle to the world became the lens of our webcam. This ...

We’re stepping onto the threshold of a new digital frontier. With the majority of operators wanting to embrace innovation into their infrastructure in the near ...

Artificial intelligence is revamping the downstream industry. ML is streamlining manpower. Algorithms are predicting unplanned downtime. But how much is digitalisation really driving business decisions? ...

There are many manual tasks in plants which require personnel and contractors to come to a site, which prevents working from home or other remote ...

With a petrochemicals sector that currently accounts for 12% of global oil demand and is set to almost triple that by 2030, converting crude to ...

Navigating the next normal is a risky business. And how to create the perfect balance between risk, cost and performance was the subject international downstream ...

There’s a lot to say about sustainability, especially when you’ve built your business on fossil fuels. And when a group of international business leaders from ...

The future is something we all think about. And for 97% of the downstream community, it features petchems in some form. A recent poll of ...

Petrochemicals are part of everything we do. They’re in the plastic that packages our food, the fertilizer that boosts our crops, the detergent that cleans ...

The future of the downstream industry: a vast, uncertain horizon, marked by new technologies, and the drive for new business models. At a recent executive ...

If APM is the heart of the organisation, data is the lifeblood, pumping vital information and assets across all departments to ensure a healthy, safe ...

Unplanned shutdown time across the downstream Oil & Gas reduces asset availability by an estimated 5%. With operators functioning at only 95% of their full ...

AVEVA leads discussions on Forging resilience amidst uncertainty with Value Chain Optimization ​​​​​​in an exclusive virtual round-table. Digital Twins, dynamic supply chain and customer demands ...

When we’re flooded with data, how do we use it to make smart business decisions and drive operational excellence? When we’re flooded with data, how ...

Is hydrogen the future? Three downstream leaders share the reality behind the hydrogen hype. Examining the commerciality and sustainability of hydrogen as an energy source ...

How has market demand and technological progress shaped the digital twins of today from those of the past. And what is its future? “Digital twin ...