Industry

There’s criticism over a lack of transparency by the Department of Energy around the application and selection process.

The South Central Louisiana chapter of the Construction Financial Management Association held its annual Trends in Construction event today, highlighting what the contracting, industrial...

Ammonia producer CF Industries Holdings this morning announced it is evaluating the feasibility of constructing a low-carbon ammonia production plant at its Blue Point...

The Energy Department announced this morning it is awarding up to $1.2 billion to two projects in Louisiana and Texas to directly remove carbon dioxide from the air in what officials are calling the largest investment in “engineered carbon removal” in history. 

Contractors have plugged more than 10% of Louisiana’s orphaned oil well sites in the first six and half months of work funded by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021. 

Contractors are creating new solutions for an old and worsening labor problem.

The Research Park Corporation board of directors has decided to extend the lease of the Nexus Louisiana technology park incubator at Bon Carré Business Center for three more years. 

Contractors have plugged 300 orphaned well sites in Louisiana over the past 4½ months, Gov. John Bel Edwards and Department of Natural Resources Secretary Tom Harris announced today.

The petrochemical industry is in the middle of a transformation of sorts in terms of its logistics and supply chain processes.

A significant uptick in maintenance turnarounds is most definitely on the way, beginning this spring and then followed by a much larger splash in...

Lawmakers advanced two proposed constitutional amendments Monday that would give parish governments a larger share of oil and gas tax revenues.

St. Charles Clean Fuels is exploring the feasibility of building a $4.6 billion ammonia production and export facility in St. Charles Parish, New Orleans...

There are now 39 businesses taking part in the MovEBR Small Business Video Library, an ongoing virtual networking campaign hosted by the city-parish. 

ExxonMobil is considering Baton Rouge for a new advanced recycling facility that would repurpose traditionally hard-to-process plastics. 

A planned carbon capture and sequestration hub in Calcasieu Parish could abate some $11 billion in environmental damages over its lifetime, according to a new report by LSU’s  Center for Energy Studies. 

With several chemical and renewables projects on the horizon, Baton Rouge’s industrial labor bottleneck could soon reach a breaking point.

LSU petroleum engineering professor Dandina Rao has come up with a plan that would  increase oil production as well as reduce greenhouse gas emissions...

Louisiana borrowers continued to struggle in December to make their home loan payments, according to a recent report from mortgage analytics firm Black Knight Inc.

The city-parish received $20.66 million from its 2% sales and use tax collections during October, a 2.98% increase over the $20.06 million gathered during...

Louisiana’s ports grow increasingly aware of cybersecurity vulnerability, but gaps remain.