A changing industry – another boom and bust? This answer is very mixed. Before the drop in oil prices, there was certainly a boom within the greater hydrocarbon industry. Carbon dioxide (CO2) fracs are still...
With few exceptions, carbon dioxide (CO2) delivered to most markets is in a liquid form, and when producing most product for most of the markets, purification is also an essential component.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) usage in the food and beverage sector is a major component of the merchant CO2 industry, and has been for many decades. The applications in the food sector, of course, are more...
In the US, some estimates indicate a carbon dioxide (CO2) demand of about 9.2 million short tons for the merchant market, where the largest sector of demand is food processing, estimated to be in the...
In many ways, 2020 sounds like a long way off, but we all know how rapidly five years passes – this represents almost no time at all in some ways. As things go in the...
The carbon dioxide (CO2) industry continues to evolve in the US and internationally. Specific to the US, the acquisition of EPCO Carbon Dioxide by Air Products and the further purchase of Continental Carbonic by MATHESON...
Carbon dioxide-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects in North America found their early beginnings in the 1970s and 1980s, via natural sourcing from the Colorado-located McElmo Dome and Sheep Mountain sources, coupled with the New...
Since the global recession, many world markets with significant ethanol resources, such as the Americas, have consolidated and numerous dormant plants have been sold – in some cases for pennies on the dollar. Some of...
The global merchant market has been defined to be ‘around 20 million metric tons per year’ in capacity over the last few years. However, I would estimate this market to exceed 20 million metric tons...
By various accounts, today the US has up to 112 sources for carbon dioxide (CO2), generally speaking of the merchant market, however some of these sources are argued to be dormant, or dedicated to enhanced...
