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Peter Brennan, Sebastian Lewis and Christopher Davis on how the wait for the first significant merging of Chinese steelmakers could be at an end.

Will growing supplies of shale-driven olefins expansions in the North American market outstrip the ability of units downstream to take in product?

Beyond Mexico, proposed petrochemical expansions have fallen by the wayside in Latin America.

(Wed, 29 Jun 2016) Stripper wells, or wells that produce small volumes, represent an important but decreasing share of total U.S. oil and natural gas production. These wells are characterized as producing no more than 15 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) over a 12-month period. EIA estimates that there were about 380,000 stripper oil wells (so called because they are stripping the remaining oil out of the ground) in the United States operating at the end of 2015, compared to about 90,000 nonstripper oil wells.