Research
and insight.

TOPIC 01

Refinery economics

Crack spreads, distillate demand, closures, and what the numbers mean for anyone deciding where to put capital in downstream.

TOPIC 02

Nuclear & frontier energy

TRISO, molten salt, SMRs, fusion progress, and the balance-of-plant engineering that determines whether any of it ships.

TOPIC 03

Process safety

PSM, RAGAGEP, incident lessons, and the gap between what the regulation says and what facilities actually do.

TOPIC 04

Modular refining

The 25,000 BPD micro-refinery thesis, modular construction economics, and the markets that make it work.

TOPIC 05

AI in industry

What actually works in a plant versus what demos well — written from building the tools rather than selling them.

TOPIC 06

Engineering software

NEXUS CAD, NORMEX, and the case for building engineering software in-house instead of licensing it.