Council Members in this Study Group: 70
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President
Future Enviroassets, LLC![]()
Larry Fradkin is the President of Future Enviroassets, an international energy and environmental consulting firm. His expertise and extensive experience in energy includes policy/regulatory and technology in climate change/greenhouse gases, solar, wind,...
Christopher SheaFranchise Owner
BATTERIES PLUS, LLC![]()
Christopher Shea is the Franchise Owner of Batteries Plus, a retail and business to business battery chain. Mr. Shea has been responsible for financial planning and development of W.R. Grace's $110M battery separator division which he helped sell for...
Independent Consultant
Ron W. Kosage![]()
Ron Kosage is an independent consultant providing consulting services to the industrial, municipal, private water, wastewater, waste to energy, and biodiesel industries. Mr. Kosage has more than 40 years of experience in management, supervision, environmental...
Jorge FernandezPrincipal
Water Science & Marketing![]()
Jorge Fernandez is the Co-Founder of Water Science and Marketing, LLC (WSM), consultants with a focus on growing water industry businesses globally. Government and industry clients in the water industry tap WSM for business strategies and programs for...
Consulting Engineer
Michael F. Milam, P.E.![]()
Mike Milam is an independent Consultant in the energy field. Most recently, he was a Vice President and Refinery Manager at Frontier Oil's Cheyenne, WY refinery. Frontier is an independent petroleum refining and marketing company with complex refineries...
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3Q2009 An Ugly One For Refiners
November 7, 2009
Frontier Oil, Holly Hit By Weak Refining Margins | www.reuters.com
Weak demand has hurt the profitability of refiners.
Domestic Refiners Need Level Playing Field
November 1, 2009
Washington's Carbon Rules Need Refining | online.wsj.com
Foreign refiners will get a significant advantage if current proposals for carbon legislation do not change.
Don't Write the Epitaph for Oilsands Yet
October 30, 2009
The boom ends for Alberta oilsands | www.cbc.ca
Western Canadian oilsands are a strategic resource for North America and will continue to play an important role in the overall energy equation for the next twenty years, at a minimum.
Face of Refining Industry Could Be Changed
October 29, 2009
US Refiners Say Climate Laws Biggest Challenge | www.reuters.com
The US refining industry could be decimated as the domestic steel industry has been if current climate legislation disadvantages domestic refiners, such as Valero , Tesoro , Frontier , Holly , Western , and Alon .
Lubrizol Surprises as Analysts MIss a Changing Specialty Chemical Environment
October 23, 2009
Lubrizol forecasts 3Q profit above Street view | finance.yahoo.com
Lubrizol and Newmarket both recently announced drastically improved sequential profit margins in a difficult general business environment. The doubling in run rate operating margins in 2009 suggests a structural change in the supplier customer price negotiation process. What happened in the lubricant additives business could also happen in other specialty chemical areas. The key requirement is that suppliers mange their product profile to help improve their customers profitability.
October 27, 2009 | Chicago
Seminar: Refining Outlook (Chicago)October 26, 2009 | Boston
Seminar: Refining Outlook (Boston)May 8, 2008 | New York
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