Editorial by Geoffrey Lakings for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Recently, the World Petrochemical Conference was held here in Houston.

• c&en: Top of the agenda at the World Petrochemical Conference were energy abatement and plastics circularity
  At big conference, petrochemical executives talk competitiveness and energy transition
  
  At the World Petrochemical Conference 2023...Larry Tan...delivered a presentation about the propylene market. Producers are building too much capacity, Tan said...some 11 propane dehydrogenation projects were opening in a single year...and profitability would be meager in 2023.