“A river is a body of water flowing into the sea, a lake or another river”, so went the definition we were given in our earliest geography classes in primary school, a long, long time ago. In my case, ...

In the early 21st century the bioprocessing industry fretted about a production crisis that never happened. Concern arose a decade ago that downstream purification facilities would not be adequate to ...

In contrast, fully de-integrated modern petroleum companies could not be structured or strategically positioned more differently (Fig. 2). In the extreme, each division operates as an independent ...

New research highlights inequities between downstream and upstream countries that share the same watershed. The study outlines how international agreements can better address shared resource problems ...

Clean hydrogen investment platform Hy24 is looking to balance its investments across the whole hydrogen value chain, targeting both upstream and downstream opportunities. The Hy24 venture between ...

Upstream profitability is challenged if oil markets remain oversupplied and prices modest. The solution is a sustained focus on deep structural change. There’s much Upstream operators can learn from ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...