#phillips petroleum

[stone-cold-groove]

Go on, I’m listening... Phillips Petroleum solar energy ad, circa 1981.

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Phillips Petroleum Oil Tanks, Borger, Texas photograph by Robert Yarnall Richie for Life Magazine Life Magazine cover, January 17, 1938 (cropped) image credit: Robert Yarnall Richie/Time & Life Pictures

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Phillips Petroleum Co, 1965

[sergeantsporks]

Hey I just realized something considering the portal arch and the door

Caleb and Evelyn were just wasting titan blood by the vial

“Here’s this super valuable and rare resource time to poor some on a arch to visit my otherworldly sweaty”

I'm pretty sure I've seen posts discussing this in the past, but basically: I assume it was a more plentiful resource back then. Maybe not the EASIEST to get ahold of, perhaps a little rare, but what IS easy to get in the Isles? It seems to be known even to Phillip that it's available at Eclipse Lake (before the vein "decayed"), and you just have to be careful. He even says that "the titan's vein runs through the land" and although he calls the blood "potent" and "powerful" in his journal, there's no mention of it being rare at the time. The Eclipse Lake vein decaying might have been the catalyst that caused the need for the portal door: with the resource becoming harder to find, they needed to figure out a way to use it more efficiently than pouring it on an archway.

Plus, I'm willing to bet that before Phillip built a great honking castle around it, it was a lot easier to track down a vein starting at the titan's heart (do you think blood from a titan's artery would have different properties from a vein? I digress, but interesting to think about). Palistrom wood is ALSO a resource that's rare in the present (thanks to Phillip), but based on the sheer number of palisman in the Bat Queen's forest and how ingrained into witch culture they are, we can assume it didn't USE to be so rare back in Evelyn's time. The same could hold true for titan's blood.

I tend to imagine it something like natural gas/petroleum. It's a finite resource, one that we are totally capable of running out of, but right now, most cars are gas powered, and we use it to power our car to drive over to our sweetie's house. Someday in the future, that might not be so true, but for now? Most people take a "who cares!" stance and use it anyway. Which I imagine is what happened with Evelyn.

[mariacallous]

With the Olympic torch extinguished in Paris, all eyes are turning to Los Angeles for the 2028 Olympics.

The host city has promised that the next Summer Games will be “car-free.”

For people who know Los Angeles, this seems overly optimistic. The car remains king in LA, despite growing public transit options.

When LA hosted the Games in 1932, it had an extensive public transportation system, with buses and an extensive network of electric streetcars. Today, the trolleys are long gone; riders say city buses don’t come on schedule, and bus stops are dirty. What happened?

This question fascinates me because I am a business professor who studies why society abandons and then sometimes returns to certain technologies, such as vinyl records, landline phones, and metal coins. The demise of electric streetcars in Los Angeles and attempts to bring them back today vividly demonstrate the costs and challenges of such revivals.

Riding the Red and Yellow Cars

Transportation is a critical priority in any city, but especially so in Los Angeles, which has been a sprawling metropolis from the start.

In the early 1900s, railroad magnate Henry Huntington, who owned vast tracts of land around LA, started subdividing his holdings into small plots and building homes. In order to attract buyers, he also built a trolley system that whisked residents from outlying areas to jobs and shopping downtown.

By the 1930s, Los Angeles had a vibrant public transportation network, with over 1,000 miles of electric streetcar routes, operated by two companies: Pacific Electric Railway, with its “Red Cars,” and Los Angeles Railway, with its “Yellow Cars.”

The system wasn’t perfect by any means. Many people felt that streetcars were inconvenient and also unhealthy when they were jammed with riders. Moreover, streetcars were slow because they had to share the road with automobiles. As auto usage climbed and roads became congested, travel times increased.

Nonetheless, many Angelenos rode the streetcars—especially during World War II, when gasoline was rationed and automobile plants shifted to producing military vehicles.

Demise of Public Transit

The end of the war marked the end of the line for streetcars. The war effort had transformed oil, tire, and car companies into behemoths, and these industries needed new buyers for goods from the massive factories they had built for military production. Civilians and returning soldiers were tired of rationing and war privations, and they wanted to spend money on goods such as cars.

After years of heavy usage during the war, Los Angeles’ streetcar system needed an expensive capital upgrade. But in the mid-1940s, most of the system was sold to a company called National City Lines, which was partly owned by the carmaker General Motors, the oil companies Standard Oil of California and Phillips Petroleum, and the Firestone tire company.

These powerful forces had no incentive to maintain or improve the old electric streetcar system. National City ripped up tracks and replaced the streetcars with buses that were built by General Motors, used Firestone tires, and ran on gasoline.

There is a long-running academic debate over whether self-serving corporate interests purposely killed LA’s streetcar system. Some researchers argue that the system would have died on its own, like many other streetcar networks around the world.

The controversy even spilled over into pop culture in the 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which came down firmly on the conspiracy side.

What’s undisputed is that, starting in the mid-1940s, powerful social forces transformed Los Angeles so that commuters had only two choices: drive or take a public bus. As a result, LA became so choked with traffic that it often took hours to cross the city.

In 1990, the Los Angeles Times reported that people were putting refrigerators, desks, and televisions in their cars to cope with getting stuck in horrendous traffic. A swath of movies, from Falling Down to Clueless to La La Land, have featured the next-level challenge of driving in LA.

Traffic was also a concern when LA hosted the 1984 Summer Games, but the Games went off smoothly. Organizers convinced over 1 million people to ride buses, and they got many trucks to drive during off-peak hours. The 2028 games, however, will have roughly 50 percent more athletes competing, which means thousands more coaches, family, friends, and spectators. So simply dusting off plans from 40 years ago won’t work.

Olympic Transportation Plans

Today, Los Angeles is slowly rebuilding a more robust public transportation system. In addition to buses, it now has four light-rail lines—the new name for electric streetcars—and two subways. Many follow the same routes that electric trolleys once traveled. Rebuilding this network is costing the public billions, since the old system was completely dismantled.

Three key improvements are planned for the Olympics. First, LA’s airport terminals will be connected to the rail system. Second, the Los Angeles organizing committee is planning heavily on using buses to move people. It will do this by reassigning some lanes away from cars and making them available for 3,000 more buses, which will be borrowed from other locales.

Finally, there are plans to permanently increase bicycle lanes around the city. However, one major initiative, a bike path along the Los Angeles River, is still under an environmental review that may not be completed by 2028.

Car-Free for 17 Days

I expect that organizers will pull off a car-free Olympics, simply by making driving and parking conditions so awful during the Games that people are forced to take public transportation to sports venues around the city. After the Games end, however, most of LA is likely to quickly revert to its car-centric ways.

As Casey Wasserman, chair of the LA 2028 organizing committee, recently put it: “The unique thing about Olympic Games is for 17 days you can fix a lot of problems when you can set the rules—for traffic, for fans, for commerce—than you do on a normal day in Los Angeles.”

[dog-park-dissidents]

holy shit new music !! may i ask which man the new song is about 👁

Out With A Bang is a work of fiction and any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. On a completely unrelated note, here is a list of interesting actual persons who are alive today and have real names and addresses:

Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO, TotalEnergies Helge Lund, Chairman, BP Bernard Looney, CEO, BP Amin H. Nasser, CEO, Saudi Aramco Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Chairman, Saudi Aramco Zhang Yuzhuou, Chairman, China Petrochemical Mike Wirth, CEO, Chevron Viktor Zubkov, Chairman, Gazprom Alexey Miller, CEO, Gazprom Javad Owji, Chairman, National Iranian Oil Company Ken Mackenzie, Chairperson, BHP Billiton Mike Henry, CEO, BHP Billiton PM Prasad, Chairman, Coal India Octavio Romero Oropeza, CEO, Pemex Jim Grech, CEO, Peabody Energy Ryan Lance, CEO, ConocoPhillips Sultan Al Jaber, CEO, ADNOC Jean Paul Prates, CEO, Petrobras Nawaf Saud Nasser Al-Sabah, CEO, Kuwait Petroleum Corp. Toufik Hakkar, CEO, Sonatrach John P Surma, CEO, Marathon Petroleum Joseph Gorder, CEO, Valero Greg Garland, CEO, Phillips 66 Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, President, Pertamina

[nicklloydnow]

“In 1932, Adolf A. Berle Jr. and Gardner C. Means wrote a book entitled The Modern Corporation and Private Property. A critique of corporate management for being aloof and complacent, out of touch with the consumer and irresponsible to the stockholder, this volume became the bible of Marxists, left wing intellectuals and interventionist politicians. Under the banner of separation of ownership and control, the Berle-Means thesis led to an attack on the corporate structure from which today's top executives are still reeling.

With this background, one would have thought that the people urging a greater role for the public sector would have welcomed the advent of the corporate raider. For this new breed of capitalist has sent shivers down the spines of the denizens of the boardroom. Swooping down, launching "unfriendly" or "hostile" takeover bids, these corporate raiders have succeeded in replacing management from coast to coast in dozens of industries, and in frightening thousands of other out-of-touch chief executive officers into greater responsibility.

At least under the theory of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," it might have been expected that critics of the marketplace, noticeably the followers of Berle and Means, would have rallied `round the cause of the corporate raider.

In the event, however, this expectation has remained unfulfilled. Not only has the activity of the corporate raider been deprecated by the champions of government interference in the marketplace, but it has been roundly condemned by practically all pundits and commentators on public policy. In 1987, the left-leaning film director Oliver Stone distilled the common image of the corporate raider into the supposedly loathsome Gordon Gekko, brilliantly portrayed in an Oscar-winning performance by Michael Douglas. And this is the image of Gekko under which the corporate raider must labor in the present day.

Yet, despite this all-but-universal criticism, the unfriendly takeover bid has benefited consumers and stockholders, and served notice on complacent management across the board. In one celebrated case that unfolded shortly before Stone's film Wall Street was released, corporate guerrilla Carl Icahn put in a bid for a block of shares of Phillips Petroleum. Stung by Icahn's bid, Phillips' executives offered to improve a recapitalization plan they had been forced to put forth in response to an earlier planned takeover, this one by T. Boone Pickens. As a result, Icahn walked away with a cool $50 million, Pickens registered a profit of $89 million on a resale of his holdings to the company, all Phillips' shareholders gained from the better offer, and the oil firm itself was left far leaner and meaner than before.

Needless to say, neither Icahn nor Pickens nor any of the other masterminds of "the 1980s takeover boom," were publicly thanked for the good they had done. On the contrary: both men were not only mocked by Oliver Stone, they were also robbed of the opportunity to do any more such good by a rash of anti-takeover statutes adopted late in the decade. Henry Manne reported that hostile takeovers had "declined to four percent from fourteen percent of all mergers."

The conventional wisdom holds that this outcome is a good one for investors, but the facts show otherwise. No story of the corporate raider can ignore the role of the heroic Michael Milken. Assume there was a hotel worth $20 million as a present discounted capital value. Given an interest rate of 5%, this concern should throw off roughly $1 million to its owners. But stipulate that due to inefficiency, or general avarice, or to the fact that the CEO salary was far higher than justified, or a combination of all such phenomena, the owners were earning far less than that in dividends. And, guess what? The stock was trading at a lower value than might have prevailed, had these tape worm factors not been in operation.

Enter the "evil" Michael Milken. He swoops in, purchases enough of the stock in this corporation to kick out the old board and replace it with his own nominees. This is considered a "hostile" takeover by a corporate "raider." From whence springs the hostility? All Milken did was buy up a mess of stocks. Did he threaten any of these stock owners that they would walk the plank if they did not sell to him? No, of course not; we are talking arm's-length stock market deals here. We can logically infer that the owners of these stocks preferred the price offered them by the "raider," otherwise they would not have sold out. No, the "hostility," instead, stems from the CEO and his cronies who were mismanaging this hotel into the ground.

The Milkins of the world are akin to the canary in the mine; they are the Distant Early Warning Line for the economy.

When they get active, it is in response to something rotten that is going on. And what was the public reaction to this corporate raider? Instead of hoisting him up on their shoulders and holding ticker tape parades in his honor, he was given the back of the public's hand to his face. To wit, he was prosecuted by the Securities and Exchange Commission for insider trading, violations of U.S. Securities Laws and other financial felonies. He pled guilty only after the authorities threatened to go after his ailing brother. For shame.” - Walter Block, ‘Defending the Undefendable II’ (2013) [p. 41 - 44]

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Your fork could someday be made of sugar and wood powders and degrade on-demand

Single-use hard plastics are pervasive: utensils, party decorations and food containers, to name a few examples. These items pile up in landfills, and many biodegradable versions stick around for months, requiring industrial composting systems to fully degrade. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering have created a sturdy, lightweight material that disintegrates on-demand—and they made it from sugar and wood-derived powders.

Sturdy, degradable materials made from plants and other non-petroleum sources have come a long way in recent years. For example, cornstarch-based packing peanuts disappear simply by dousing them in water, and some utensils are based on polymers synthesized from plant sugars.

But those packing peanuts can't be used to protect anything wet, and plant-derived polymers still take a long time to break down. One potential alternative is a new type of rigid material designed from isomalt, which is a sugar alcohol rather than a polymer. With isomalt, bakers can create breathtaking, but brittle, structures for desserts, and then dissolve them away quickly in water. So, Scott Phillips and colleagues wanted to boost the sturdiness of isomalt with natural additives to create a robust material that degrades on-demand.

Read more.

[oldtimesnew]

Phillips 66 Petroleum, 1987

Scanned from Taschen's "American Ads of the 80s

[creativeera]

Fire Resistant Hydraulic Fluid Market Estimated to Witness High Growth Owing to Increasing Demand

The fire resistant hydraulic fluid market has been growing significantly over the past few years due to the advantages offered by these fluids such as high flash point, superior oxidation stability and oil film strength. Fire resistant hydraulic fluids effectively prevent hydraulic systems from igniting and spreading fire in high-risk industry verticals such as automotive, mining and construction. These fluids not only increase safety but also optimize productivity by minimizing downtime and repair costs associated with fire hazards.

The global fire resistant hydraulic fluid market is estimated to be valued at USD 1.50 Bn in 2024 and is expected to reach USD 1.91 Bn by 2031, exhibiting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.5% from 2024 to 2031.

Key Takeaways Key players operating in the fire resistant hydraulic fluid market are American Chemical Technologies Inc., Castrol Ltd., BASF SE, China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group), DowDupont Inc., Exxon Mobil Corporation, Eastman Chemical Company, Southwestern Petroleum Corporation, Houghton International Inc., MORESCO Corporation, Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd., Quaker Chemical Corporation, Shell plc, FUCHS, TotalEnergies, PETROFER, LANXESS, CONDAT, Chevron, and Phillips 66. The key players are focusing on new product launches and expansion strategies to gain a competitive edge in the market. The growing automotive, construction and mining industries are expected to offer significant growth opportunities for Fire Resistant Hydraulic Fluid Market Size  manufacturers. Additionally, the increasing stringent regulations regarding fire safety is further driving the demand. The global expansion of major players into emerging markets of Asia Pacific and Latin America through partnerships and collaborations will further aid the fire resistant hydraulic fluid market growth over the forecast period. Market drivers The increasing Fire Resistant Hydraulic Fluid Market Size and Trends from automotive and manufacturing industries where fire hazards are common is a key driver propelling the fire resistant hydraulic fluid market growth. These industries extensively use hydraulic machines and heavy equipment that require fire resistant fluids to prevent explosions and production downtime. Moreover, the implementation of strict environmental and safety regulations across core end-use industries mandating the use of fire resistant hydraulic fluids is anticipated to boost the market.

PEST Analysis Political: Fluid manufacturers have to comply with stringent regulations regarding fire safety and environmental protection. Government policies aimed at increasing industrial safety standards positively influence the demand. Economic: Growth in end-use industries such as oil & gas, manufacturing, transportation, and construction is a major driver. In addition, rising investments towards infrastructure projects augment the market. Social: Rising awareness about industrial safety and increasing protection standards established by organizations boost adoption. Implementation of fire protection measures is creating opportunities. Technological: Developments in production techniques help manufacturers comply with regulatory norms easily. Advancements in additive chemistry have enabled creating customized formulations. Geographical regions with high market concentration North America and Europe account for over 60% of the global market value due to large scale end-use industries presence. Stringent safety regulations and high adoption of protection measures increase the demand. Fastest growing region Asia Pacific is expected to witness highest growth during the forecast period led by China, India, and other developing countries. Rapid industrialization, infrastructure development projects, and growing manufacturing sector will drive the regional market. Supportive government policies boost investments in fire protection systems.

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Bhagavad-gita Classes this Fall

Koti Sreekrishna, PhD will be teaching Bhagavad-gita classes during August–October 2024 / Sunday to Thursday at 9.30pm EST (Monday to Friday at 7am IST). The opening orientation session will be held on Thursday, August 15th at 9.30pm EST (i.e. Friday, August 16th at 7am IST).

To enrol for classes, join this WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/JAmuGVEEwiOCRIP3kmjpbP

Dr. Sreekrishna was born in 1953 at Bangalore. He studied Biochemistry at IISc. after graduating from Central College and later worked as a research fellow with the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Kentucky. He retired in 2021 after over thirty-five years as corporate scientist with Phillips Petroleum Company, Marion Merrel Dow, and Procter & Gamble Company. He is deeply interested in philosophy, inter-religious dialogue, and studying the Hindu scriptures. He has contributed articles to the Hindu Society of Greater Cincinnati (HSGC) temple magazine. Having been actively associated with the temple for over thirty years, he currently serves as the Religious Counselor of HSGC. For several years, he has served in the HSGC executive council. He is a Distinguished Toastmaster.

I had the good fortune of collaborating with him on five books.

[With Dr. Sreekrishna at his residence in Mason, OH in 2008 when we were translating the Gita together!]

Please find below a short note from him. –Hari Ravikumar

My Journey with the Bhagavad-gita From my childhood, I have been connected to the Bhagavad-gita, one way or another. My father (K. S. Krishna Tatachar, Sanskrit scholar and author) taught me the recitation of the Gita in the traditional, rigorous way. By age 9, I had memorized the entire 700 verses of the Gita. The most thrilling moment with this rote memorization, ever fresh in my memory, was when I won the first prize in ‘Six Chapter Gita Recitation Contest’ at my school (National Middle School, Bangalore) in 1963. One of the judges of the contest was apparently so impressed that he added Rs. 10 from his own pocket to the actual award amount of Rs. 29. I consider that as the most valuable ten rupees ever earned in my life because it was a blessing from Prof. H. S. Varadadeshikachar, who was to be my Sanskrit teacher in college; later, he was better known as H. H. Sri Rangapriya Swami.

Before I left to Houston, TX in 1978 to undertake postdoctoral studies at the Biochemistry department of Baylor College of Medicine, I requested my dad to say a few words about the Gita, which I promptly recorded on tape. In his brief talk, he said that the Gita is a sarva anukoola shastra, a scriptural guide which is convenient to everyone. That one phrase said it all. But I always wondered why even those who knew the Gita made life inconvenient for themselves and for others. Was it because of ‘something else’ (divisive and dogmatic ideas) coming in the way? I kept reading every book on Gita I could lay my hands on; I might have read fifty versions by now. In addition to that, I attended many discourses by reputed scholars. I found some new insights as well as the ‘something else’, which was not always the same, but was always there, and in disguise at times. All along, I was trying to intuitively make sense, especially of some tricky verses which could be understood in multiple ways; in a way, I was trying to read Krishna’s mind.

In 1987 as a biotechnology scientist at Phillips Petroleum Company, I attended a conference in Weimar, East Germany during which I visited Martin Luther’s hometown, I wondered why the Hindus did not get a Martin Luther but had only Popes! Then it dawned on me that Krishna is not just our Martin Luther but so much more than that. In 1988, I happened to watch Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers, on public television. I could see the beauty of myth. The question: “Did everything happen exactly as in the epic Mahabharata?” stopped troubling me. Many traditionalists take the epic literally while many rationalists discard it entirely. Thanks to Joseph Campbell, I did not fall into either of those traps.

In 1990, my brother K. Srinivas gifted me D. V. Gundappa’s discourse on Gita in Kannada, Jeevana Dharma Yoga (‘A Manual for Living’). This was a book first published in 1966, bringing national recognition to the author. I was happy to see that some of my own intuitive understanding was also echoed in DVG’s book.

My friend K. Vasudevan wanted to bring out an English translation of the Gita and asked me for a recommendation. I couldn’t think of one that I wholeheartedly liked. So in 2005, I began working on a translation, trying to keep out that ‘something else.

I had just completed a word-for-word translation to be published as a ‘one verse a day, self-study manual’ and shared the draft with a few, when the best happened. There came along my nephew Hari Ravikumar, over three decades younger (only in age) as co-author with brilliant ideas, great depth, unique talents, insights, and style. He wanted to first have a modern English version in order to make the book accessible to any person, from any culture, who wants to know about the Gita or about Indian wisdom. as a result we brought out The New Bhagavad-Gita: Timeless wisdom in the language of our times in 2011. Then in 2013, we wrote The Easy Bhagavad-Gita: An easy-to-read version for busy people. Both these books were well-received by readers around the world. In 2014, we published The Complete Bhagavad-Gita, a verse-by-verse self-study guide to master the ancient text with new insights.

I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped us during these years. We would not have these books but for their constant support and encouragement. Also, I must thank my dear wife Shailini for putting up with this ‘Gita-nut’, a title accorded by our daughter and son!

I have always felt unexplainable joy even while simply reciting verses of the Gita and so much more when I have gone deeper into the text. But for my father’s initiation I might not have had a life-long obsession with this masterpiece. It is the greatest gift my father gave me.

[The present avatar of Dr. Sreekrishna]

About the Course Thanks to Shilpa Sharma for inviting me to conduct this online Bhagavad-Gita course in English! It will span from mid-Aug to mid-Oct. 2024. It is a course for anyone who is interested. Except for a working knowledge of English, no other pre-requisites are expected.

Starting on the auspicious Shukla Ekadashi as well as India’s Independence Day (August 15; it will be August 16 for India), the hour-long classes will be on zoom, five days a week (on weekdays, at 9.30pm EST) with no homework. I will read out the Sanskrit shloka, give the meaning of the words, and explain the import of the verse. I will try to ensure that the basic concepts are clear to everyone. I will leave the last 10-15 minutes of each one-hour session for any Q&A. That will also be time for my co-author Hari Ravikumar to share any thoughts.

In this manner, I will go through all seven hundred verses of the text, fully dedicated to Gita!

Whatever has been expounded in the Gita is meant to be experimented in our life and to be realized by experience rather than by blind faith or excessive intellectualization. I will share my personal experiences where appropriate.

By the end of the course, you will get an idea of what the Bhagavad-gita contains—and perhaps the learnings will enrich your life.

While teaching the class, I will be using our book The Complete Bhagavad-Gita (available in the US in three volumes)— Vol. 1 https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Bhagavad-Gita-verse-verse-self-study/dp/1724515853 Vol. 2 https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Bhagavad-Gita-verse-verse-self-study/dp/172451637X Vol. 3 https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Bhagavad-Gita-verse-verse-self-study/dp/1724516736

This is going to be roughly a sixty-hour course in a seriously casual setting, spanning three months. It is a free course.

Here are some background presentations for those interested:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MNOA5RXIsv5uT94WaE_pA3PI1DAfXEaw/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16ohkYQ4wcySmI5eWZAmSTPk4VgkkqAVp/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PIXxG4AF8rdh977lFYCMYMZlm79inWEx/view?usp=drivesdk

–Koti Sreekrishna

[industryinsightsandanalysis]

Petroleum Coke Market: Trends, Drivers, and Future Prospects

Global Petroleum Coke Market is expected to grow at a significant rate of around 6% during the forecast period. Petroleum coke is obtained as the final solid material during the refining of the crude petroleum product. Petroleum coke is used in a variety of applications such as power generation, mixing material for aluminum & other metals, construction, and others. Furthermore, the increasing demand for steel owing to the development of highways, railways along with growing usage in the automotive, and construction industries is further expected to propel the demand for petroleum coke in developing countries such as India, China, Brazil, and Mexico, among others

The petroleum coke market is expected to grow at a significant rate owing to rapid industrialization coupled with the growing demand for electricity generation along with the increasing demand for high-carbon steel from the construction industry. Furthermore, the use of petroleum coke can reduce coking coal use by 16% at a 1% net reduction in energy efficiency. Petroleum coke is also used for fertilizer production where the pet is gasified to produce urea ammonia nitrate and ammonia which is then used to produce different fertilizers.

 For a detailed analysis of the Global Petroleum Coke Market browse through https://univdatos.com/report/petroleum-coke-market/

Based on type, the petroleum coke market is segmented into fuel grade and calcined coke. The fuel grade shows a higher market share in the year 2021 and is expected to remain the same during the forecast period owing to its use in cement kilns and for electricity generation due to the lower operational cost and higher calorific value. Furthermore, calcined coke is used as an important component for aluminum production.

Based on application, the petroleum coke market is divided into aluminum & other metals, storage, steel, power, and others. The aluminum & other material segment shows a significant growth in the market and is expected to remain the same during the forecast period due to the infrastructural development such as railways, commercial & residential buildings as well as increasing demand from steel and aluminum industries.

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For a better understanding of the market adoption of the petroleum coke industry, the market is analyzed based on its worldwide presence in the countries such as North America (U.S., Canada, Rest of North America), Europe (Germany, U.K., France, Spain, Italy, Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, India, Rest of Asia-Pacific), and LAMEA (Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., Mexico, Brazil, and Rest of the LAMEA). APAC is anticipated to grow at a substantial CAGR during the forecast period. APAC is anticipated to grow at a substantial CAGR during the forecast period. This is mainly due to the higher urbanization and increasing demand for petroleum coke derivatives including high carbon steel, cement, and others. Moreover, wide expansion in the field of construction and transportation is further expected to support the market growth. In addition, the rising demand for electricity across the world is expected to catalyze the need for petroleum coke to mitigate the shortage of the low supply and power failure. Also, the investment in aluminum and cement industries and increasing demand for aluminum are expected to derive the market in the future. For instance, Indian Oil corporation limited has invested INR 20,000 crore to set up a petroleum coke gasification plant at its Paradip refinery in Odisha.

Some of the major players operating in the market include Saudi Arabian Oil Co., Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Valero Energy Corporation, Phillips 66 Company, BP p.l.c., ExxonMobil Corporation, Essar Oil Ltd., Marathon Petroleum Corporation, and Oxbow Corporation.

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Beer Events 7.6

Events

Emperor Charles V of Spain signed a decree allowing Don Alonso de Herrera to build a brewery, the first in the Americas (1542)

Samuel Whitbread II died (1815)

Henry Johnson patented an Apparatus for Cooling Beer (1886)

Malted Milk 1st for sale (1886)

Lucky Lager bottles 1st for sale (1934)

Richard Cornelius patented a Beer Dispensing Device (1937)

Edward Trump patented a Bottle Capping Machine (1937)

John Lennon & Paul McCartney 1st met (1957)

Phillips Petroleum patented the Concentration of Beer by Crystallization (1965)

Mack Johnston patented a Tapping Device for Beer Kegs (1971)

Trollers Pub, Canada’s 1st craft beer brewery served their first pint (1982)

Michael Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling founded (2020)

Brewery Openings

Yoerg Brewery (Minnesota; 1849)

Trollers Pub (Canada; 1982)

Woinemer Hausbrauerei (Germany; 1987)

Greenshields Brewery (North Carolina; 1989)

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Driving the Future: Transformative Trends in the Oil Fuel Mobility Market

Oil Fuel Mobility Market was valued at US$ 1,384.71 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach US$ 3,202.03 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 11.11% from 2023 to 2030.

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The major players in the Oil Fuel Mobility Market are:

Royal Dutch Shell Plc

Exxon Mobil Corporation

Chevron Corporation

BP Plc

TotalEnergies

Valero Energy Corporation

Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Phillips 66 Company

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd

China National Petroleum Corporation

The global Oil Fuel Mobility Market is segmented as:

By Vehicle Type

Passenger Cars

Commercial Vehicles

Two-Wheelers

Others

By Fuel Type

Gasoline

Diesel

Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)

Biodiesel

Others

By End User

Transportation and Logistics

Agriculture

Construction

Mining

Others

By Region

North America

U.S.

Canada

Mexico

Europe

France

U.K.

Spain

Germany

Italy

Russia

Rest of Europe

Asia Pacific

China

Japan

India

South Korea

Rest of Asia Pacific

Middle East & Africa

GCC

North Africa

South Africa

Rest of Middle East & Africa

Latin America

Brazil

Argentina

Rest of Latin America.

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“That a certain segment of the internet would be so hungry for even a fleeting glimpse of Malick is not surprising. The director is as famous for his closely guarded privacy as his output. He has not given an on-the-record interview in nearly four decades. From 1978, when Paramount released Malick’s second film, the Panhandle-set Days of Heaven, until 1998, when his World War II epic, The Thin Red Line, premiered, Malick more or less vanished. Rumors circulated around Hollywood that he was living in a garage, that he was teaching philosophy at the Sorbonne, that he was working as a hairdresser. Even as he returned to filmmaking, was nominated for Oscars, won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palm d’Or, and doubled down on his experimental style (cinephiles will never stop debating his decision to punctuate a fifties Texas family drama with CGI dinosaurs in The Tree of Life), Malick continued to maintain his silence.

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Malick was born in Illinois in 1943 and spent his boyhood mostly in Waco and Bartlesville, Oklahoma, the eldest of three brothers. His mother, Irene, was a homemaker who had grown up on a farm near Chicago; his father, Emil, was the son of Assyrian Christians from Urmia, in what is now modern-day Iran, and staked out a career as an executive with the Phillips Petroleum Company. Emil was aggressively accomplished, a multi-patent-holding geologist who played professional-level church organ and served as a choir director, and he pushed the young Malick to succeed on all fronts from an early age. (A Waco Tribune-Herald news brief from 1952 noted that “eight-year-old Terry” had “surprised his classmates at Lake Waco Elementary School by presenting a 43-page paper on planets.”) But Emil could be a stern taskmaster, and he and Malick often butted heads. “They had some conflicts over the years,” Jim Lynch, a close friend of Malick’s since high school, told me. “That’s one reason Terry came to St. Stephen’s.”

St. Stephen’s is known as the Hill, both for its steep topography and its aspiration to be an enlightened beacon (as in the biblical “city on a hill”), and Malick thrived in a culture that emphasized spirituality, intellectualism, and rugged individualism. “When I first got there, it was made known that he was the local genius,” Lynch told me. Malick had the highest standing in the class his junior and senior years, served in student leadership positions like dorm council, played forward on the basketball team, and, with Romberg, co-captained the football team, playing both offensive and defensive tackle, an accomplishment of which he’s still proud. (“He says that in football he was ‘the sixty-minute man,’ ” Linklater told me. “Ecky says that the only time he boasts is when he talks about his high school athletic prowess.”)

None of Malick’s peers—or, it would seem, Malick—had any inkling that he would stake out a career as a filmmaker, but he was already exploring many of the ideas that would animate his work. Students at St. Stephen’s went to chapel twice a day, and the spiritual education there was both rigorous and open-minded, with The Catcher in the Rye taught alongside more traditional religious texts in the school’s Christian ethics class. “It was religious in a broad humanities sense,” Lynch said, a conception that Malick embraced. “Terry doesn’t like anything sectarian or dogmatic,” Lynch added. “His grounding is more in a philosophical sense of wonder.”

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After Harvard and a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University, Malick began experimenting with more-white-collar careers. He worked for a short time as a globe-trotting magazine journalist, interviewing Haitian dictator “Papa Doc” Duvalier and spending four months in Bolivia reporting for the New Yorker on the trial of the French philosopher Régis Debray, who had been accused of supporting Che Guevara and his Marxist revolutionary forces. (Malick never completed the piece.) Then there was a year as a philosophy lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, during which Malick concluded that he “didn’t have the sort of edge” required to be a good teacher. And finally, he moved to Hollywood, where he studied at the American Film Institute and quickly became an in-demand screenwriter, working on an early version of Dirty Harry, writing the script for the forgotten Paul Newman–Lee Marvin western Pocket Money, and making powerful friends like Bonnie and Clyde director Arthur Penn and AFI founder George Stevens Jr.

But Malick wanted to make his own film, and he found a story he wanted to tell in the late-fifties murder spree of Charles Starkweather. Though Malick had never directed a feature, he insisted on total freedom and had few qualms about scrapping the production schedule when he became inspired to shoot a different scene or location, exasperating many in the crew. But when Badlands, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, opened at the New York Film Festival in 1973, Malick became an instant sensation. The New York Times critic Vincent Canby called it a “cool, sometimes brilliant, always ferociously American film” and wrote that the 29-year-old Malick had “immense talent.” (The Times also reported that getting Malick to talk about Badlands was “about as easy as getting Garbo to gab.”)

Soon, Malick began production on his follow-up, Days of Heaven, a tragic love story starring Richard Gere, Sam Shepard, and Brooke Adams set in the North Texas wheat fields where Malick had worked after high school. Badlands hadn’t been an easy shoot, but on Days of Heaven, Malick’s unorthodox approach had the crew on the brink of mutiny, and when the film finally came out, in 1978, the reviews were decidedly mixed, sometimes within the same review. “It is full of elegant and striking photography; and it is an intolerably artsy, artificial film,” wrote Harold C. Schonberg in the New York Times.

Days of Heaven won an Academy Award for best cinematography, and it is now widely regarded as a masterpiece. (Roger Ebert, delighting in the stunning magic-hour photography and the poetic tone, would judge it “one of the most beautiful films ever made.”) But the experience of making the film had been so grueling for Malick that, according to Badlands producer Ed Pressman, “he just didn’t want to direct anymore.” The year after Days of Heaven premiered, Malick abandoned production on his next project, a wildly ambitious movie called Qasida that he’d hoped would tell the story of the evolution of Earth and the cosmos, and informed friends and colleagues that he was relocating full-time to Paris.

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There is only one publicly available recording of Malick’s voice. Around halfway through Badlands, he makes the single on-screen cameo of his career, engaging in a brief, tense exchange with Kit Carruthers, the Charles Starkweather–like killer played by Martin Sheen. Malick speaks in a slow, soft, higher-pitched drawl. He is unfailingly polite, a little retiring, and warm without being chummy. Malick has one of those voices that lends itself to imitation—broad and regional and distinctive—and when I spoke with his friends and colleagues, I heard several versions of it. They all sounded like the Malick we see in Badlands.

Malick’s friends describe him as a generous and humble man with a capacious intellect and a child’s insatiable curiosity. He likes going deep on birding, cosmological events, and the interconnectedness of the natural world. (“You’ll be talking to him about butterflies in the Barton Creek watershed, and then he’ll start talking about the soil and all the soil insects,” said filmmaker Laura Dunn.) He enjoys discussing the fundamental questions that drive religious and philosophical inquiry and has a deep knowledge of the Bible. (Lynch remembers that after seeing Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, Malick—a fluent French speaker, with conversational German and Spanish—mentioned that he understood the film’s spoken Aramaic, because he’d grown up hearing it from his paternal grandparents.) And yet, as in high school, Malick can be just as down-to-earth as high-minded. He’ll show up for lunch at an unfussy cafe wearing a bright Hawaiian shirt and talk about football or gush about pop-culture schlock like the genetically-modified-shark movie Deep Blue Sea or drop a quote from Ben Stiller’s Zoolander. (After hearing that Malick was a fan, Stiller made an in-character happy-birthday video for the director.)

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Malick is even more buttoned-up about his work. He politely shrugs off compliments about his films—which, in the old Hollywood style, he calls “pictures”—seemingly agonizing over flaws, missed opportunities, and bad memories of the production. “I’ll mention something like, ‘Hey, I heard there were some seventy-millimeter prints of Days of Heaven. And he’ll say, ‘Oh, gosh, when that opened, I was out of the country,’ ” Linklater said. “I think talking about his work takes him back emotionally.”

Laura Dunn, whom Malick recruited to direct The Unforeseen, a documentary about Austin’s development boom and the pollution of Barton Springs, told me that Malick finds it difficult to watch movies from start to finish. “He’s the kind of artist who seems almost tormented by his need to keep working on something,” she said. “If he’s sitting in a dark room, watching a movie all the way through, he’s restless because he’ll still be editing one of his own movies, or he’ll think about all the things he did that he regrets and wants to go back and change.”

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Malick takes years to finish his films, hiring teams of editors to put together different cuts, and finding and discarding entire story lines during the post-production process. In the final cut of The Tree of Life, Malick resolves the drama at the center of the film by having his young protagonist’s family move away from his boyhood home. There’s a bittersweet sense of a chapter closing and an uncertain future lying ahead. But in an earlier, unreleased version of the film, the story of the protagonist, Jack, ends not with his family’s departure from Waco but on a more triumphant note: he arrives as a boarding student at St. Stephen’s. It doesn’t take a deep familiarity with Malick’s life story to see the parallels between the family in the film and Malick’s own. Jack bridles under the discipline of his stern, accomplished, and ultimately loving father. He worships his angelic mother. He and his two younger brothers turn to each other for support. The film is framed around the premature death of the middle brother. (Malick’s brother Larry took his own life as a young man.)

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Malick’s silence has always seemed, in part, a way to resist such a reading. When Lynch mentioned to Malick that he saw the director’s last three features—The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, and Knight of Cups—as an “autobiographical trilogy,” Malick took umbrage. “He didn’t like me labeling them that way,” Lynch said. “He didn’t want people thinking that he was just making movies about himself. He was making movies about broader issues.” Malick might very well say the same of Song to Song, but nevertheless, it’s tempting to see his latest work as an extension of that discarded Tree of Life ending—the aging director offering a raucous love letter to the city that offered him inspiration as a boy and has sustained him ever since.”

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