IIR News Intelligence

Published February 19, 2026

Rapid AI expansion is driving a global data center "super cycle" centered in North America and Texas, sharply increasing electricity and water demand..

By Eric Funderburk, Promotions & Advertising Specialist

Published February 19, 2026

Industrial Info is tracking nearly $3 billion worth of active and proposed projects from OGE, more than half of which is attributed to a series of unit additions under consideration..

By William Ploch, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Published February 19, 2026

With a focus on boosting its natural gas power generation capacity as well as transmission and distribution, Entergy has increased its respective four-year and 2026 capital plans to $43 billion and $11.6 billion..

By Daniel Levin, Assistant Editor

Published February 19, 2026

Feed gas levels show the Golden Pass export facility for liquefied natural gas is in the commissioning phase. That makes it the ninth terminal in operation in the United States..

By Brian Ford, Editor-in-Chief

Published February 19, 2026

Scan through a selection of energy-related news highlights that we think will interest our readers..

By Eric Funderburk, Promotions & Advertising Specialist

Published February 19, 2026

Scan through a selection of energy-related news highlights that we think will interest our readers..

By Eric Funderburk, Promotions & Advertising Specialist

Published February 17, 2026

Fresh off reporting major growth in its industrial and energy-technology services segment, Baker Hughes has announced several new developments that will add to its backlog..

By Daniel Levin, Assistant Editor

Published February 12, 2026

A winter storm is expected to move from the U.S. Southwest across the southern Plains and into the East this weekend. This system is forecast to bring heavy rain and localized flooding..

By William Ploch, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Published February 09, 2026

CMPC avanza con una inversión significativa de R$25 mil millones para construir una nueva planta de celulosa en Barra do Ribeiro, en el estado de Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil..

By Brian Ford, Editor-in-Chief

Published February 16, 2026

Pemex reached its highest crude processing rates in years in December, yielding higher fuel products. Meanwhile, oil exports averaged the lowest on the company's record..

By Eric Funderburk, Promotions & Advertising Specialist

Published February 12, 2026

Capacity additions are picking up in the North American Petroleum Refining Industry, though the slate of processed crude may be changing..

By William Ploch, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Published February 12, 2026

Weak demand growth and an oversupplied market lowered oil prices and cut into fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 profits for two large integrated supermajor oil companies--Exxon Mobil Corporation and Chevron Corporation..

By Brian Ford, Editor-in-Chief

Published February 17, 2026

Fresh off reporting major growth in its industrial and energy-technology services segment, Baker Hughes has announced several new developments that will add to its backlog..

By Daniel Levin, Assistant Editor

Published February 12, 2026

A winter storm is expected to move from the U.S. Southwest across the southern Plains and into the East this weekend. This system is forecast to bring heavy rain and localized flooding..

By William Ploch, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Published February 09, 2026

The European Union (EU) has signed its largest ever free trade agreement with India as it seeks to create new economic ties at a time of geopolitical unrest caused by China, Russia and the U.S...

By Martin Lynch, European News Editor

Published February 18, 2026

Peru's Congress will soon elect its eighth president in 10 years, following the ouster of President Jose Jerí amid ongoing political instability..

By William Ploch, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Published February 18, 2026

Vicuna offers BHP and Lundin a world-class deposit, with potential to become a leading producer of copper, gold, and silver..

By Brian Ford, Editor-in-Chief

Published February 18, 2026

Codelco obtiene la aprobación para desarrollar el salar de Maricunga con Rio Tinto. El proyecto conjunto busca alcanzar una capacidad de producción de litio de 55.000 toneladas anuales, y se ejecutará en dos fases..

By Brian Ford, Editor-in-Chief

Published February 09, 2026

Stay current with the latest geopolitical events, and more importantly, instantly connect to how these events may impact you and your business strategies.

By Daniel Levin, Assistant Editor

Published February 05, 2026

CMPC is moving ahead with a major investment to build a new pulp mill in Barra do Ribeiro, in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state.

By Maria Lidia Lozano, Food & B. / Pulp, P. & W. / Alternative Fuels Latam Regional Manager

Published January 28, 2026

Ed Lewis, the founder and CEO of Industrial Info Resources (IIR), calls the IIR model "surveillance-grade" because it is active and asset-level. Now, IIR is exploring AI..

By William Ploch, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Published February 12, 2026

A winter storm is expected to move from the U.S. Southwest across the southern Plains and into the East this weekend. This system is forecast to bring heavy rain and localized flooding..

By William Ploch, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Published February 09, 2026

Stay current with the latest geopolitical events, and more importantly, instantly connect to how these events may impact you and your business strategies.

By Daniel Levin, Assistant Editor

Published February 09, 2026

With more than $2 billion of projects at U.S. soybean-crushing plants rated as medium- or high-probability in the works, the sector is led by Illinois, where one grassroot plant presently is under construction and two others are being expanded..

By Eric Funderburk, Promotions & Advertising Specialist

Published February 19, 2026

Rapid AI expansion is driving a global data center "super cycle" centered in North America and Texas, sharply increasing electricity and water demand..

By Eric Funderburk, Promotions & Advertising Specialist

Published February 18, 2026

The 2022 CHIPS and Science Act created a $52 billion investment in U.S. semiconductors. In January, the NIST, which administers funding, announced a new recipient. What else has it done, and how has the Trump administration changed it?.

By William Ploch, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Published February 16, 2026

Stay current with the latest geopolitical events, and more importantly, instantly connect to how these events may impact you and your business strategies.

By Daniel Levin, Assistant Editor

Published February 13, 2026

Germany's Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co KG is expanding its home-country operations with plans to spend 480 million euro (US$574 million) to build a state-of-the-art production facility in Saarlouis, in southwest Germany..

By Martin Lynch, European News Editor

Published February 12, 2026

A winter storm is expected to move from the U.S. Southwest across the southern Plains and into the East this weekend. This system is forecast to bring heavy rain and localized flooding..

By William Ploch, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Published February 09, 2026

The European Union (EU) has signed its largest ever free trade agreement with India as it seeks to create new economic ties at a time of geopolitical unrest caused by China, Russia and the U.S...

By Martin Lynch, European News Editor