IIR News Intelligence

In his latest move to boost coal and coal-fired electricity, President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued an executive order for the Department of Defense to increase its use of coal-fired electricity..

By Brian Ford, Editor-in-Chief

Holtec's restart of the Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan faces yet another delay..

By Daniel Levin, Assistant Editor

When commissioners in Hood County, Texas, this week voted on placing a temporary moratorium on large industrial developments that include data centers, a Texas state senator stepped in, suggesting that such actions not legal in the state..

By Eric Funderburk, Promotions & Advertising Specialist

The U.S. provided the largest share of crude oil exports to the European Union last year, though fringe players such as Libya were supportive..

By William Ploch, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Williams is investing in its shift from a pure-play midstream pipeline operator to an integrated energy company that also will focus on providing natural gas for data centers, the company said Tuesday..

By Daniel Levin, Assistant Editor

Demand for natural gas for heating is on the decline as North American temperatures return to seasonal norms, but the impact from recent winter weather caused an upward revision in wholesale natural gas prices..

By Daniel Levin, Assistant Editor

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

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

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

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

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

Vitol said that road transportation is the primary factor determining the trajectory for global oil demand. The uptake in EVs, however, is slowing down in the U.S. economy, the largest in the world..

By William Ploch, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

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

Owners of the Duc Giang Nghi Son Chemical Complex Project in Vietnam have launched a "100-day peak campaign" that continues construction around the clock and through holiday periods..

By Ralph Diasanta, Research Specialist

LyondellBasell is optimistic about 2026, following a rough 2025 that saw prices and margins weakened by unfavorable market factors..

By William Ploch, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Tropical Cyclone Gezani rapidly intensified before striking Madagascar as a Category 3 storm, causing fatalities, widespread damage, and major disruptions to mining exports and port operations, after which it weakened inland but then re-intensified over the Mozambique Channel..

By Daniel Levin, Assistant Editor

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

At least five of the Vizslas workers who were kidnapped in late January from the Panuco silver mine project have been found dead, according to news reports..

By Brian Ford, Editor-in-Chief

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

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

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

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

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

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

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday voided its own finding from 2009 that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles endangered the public health..

By Brian Ford, Editor-in-Chief

When commissioners in Hood County, Texas, this week voted on placing a temporary moratorium on large industrial developments that include data centers, a Texas state senator stepped in, suggesting that such actions not legal in the state..

By Eric Funderburk, Promotions & Advertising Specialist

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

By Eric Funderburk, Promotions & Advertising Specialist

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

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

The Mercosur-EU deal will bring agricultural, mining and manufacturing opportunities to South American producers..

By Brian Ford, Editor-in-Chief