50% of oil & gas companies use digital twins, saving billions. But most twins model equipment, not the engineering standards underneath. The missing compliance layer is the biggest opportunity in process safety AI.
For the first time since 1977, someone is building a new crude oil refinery in the United States. America First Refining broke ground this month on a 168,000 barrel-per-day facility at the Port of Brownsville, Texas. Fluor is running front-end engineering. Axens is licensing the hydroprocessing, catalytic reforming, and isomerization units. Reliance Industries is backing
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[1/6] The average U.S. refinery has ~40 written engineering standards covering pressure vessels, piping, tanks, relief systems, and rotating equipment. A recent audit I walked through found that 34 of them referenced editions superseded before 2020. RAGAGEP requires compliance with “current generally accepted good engineering practice.” The gap is where $165,514 willful violations live. Per
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50% of oil & gas firms use digital twins in 2026. Shell saves $2B/year. But most digital twins model equipment, not the compliance standards underneath. That gap is where real risk lives.
$1.1B in refinery turnarounds started Q1 2026. ExxonMobil, Marathon, and Valero account for nearly half. Standards documentation gaps surface every turnaround cycle. Here is how to stop the scramble.
WTI fell 3% on the Iran–Israel halt agreement while diesel cracks held near $65. Here’s how to separate geopolitical premium from structural shortage.
The War Premium Just Left the Oil Price. The Diesel Shortage Didn’t. Read More »
Oklo’s 13.2 GW PPA stack just met DOE’s $94M Tier 2 supply lattice. Inside the Aurora Compact: the first nuclear cycle where demand and supply rhyme.
Distillate cracks are at a four-year high. Jet fuel supply is at a 60-year low. Seven refinery closures rewrote US margins. Here is what comes next.
Hyperscalers have signed 45 GW of nuclear offtake. Nine-point-eight GW is on a real schedule. Only one project delivers electrons in 2027. Here is why.
