The rollercoaster ride of 2025
Alan Gelder, Senior Vice President of Refining, Chemicals and Oil Markets at Wood Mackenzie, joins us to review downstream developments over the past year, and look ahead to what 2026 may bring.
Welcome to the Hydrocarbon Engineering podcast: a podcast series for professionals in the downstream refining, petrochemical and gas processing industries.
Alan Gelder, Senior Vice President of Refining, Chemicals and Oil Markets at Wood Mackenzie, joins us to review downstream developments over the past year, and look ahead to what 2026 may bring.
Geoff Moody, Senior Vice President for Government Relations and Policy at American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), joins us to review the first year of President Trump’s second term in office and discuss the impact that it has had on fuel policy in the US.
Alec Cusick, Owens Corning Technical Lead, Technical Insulation, joins us to talk about the risks of LNG pool fires and methodologies to mitigate these risks.
Andrea Bombardi, Executive Vice President, RINA, offers technical and operational insight into some of the key challenges and opportunities of CCUS implementation.
David Wilson, CEO, Energy Exemplar, joins us to consider the role that oil and gas is currently playing in the booming data centre industry, and what the future holds.
Rob Benedict, Vice President, Petrochemicals and Midstream, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), discusses the outcomes of the final round of UN negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty.
Sarah Miller, President and CEO of the GPA Midstream Association, joins us to consider the vital importance of midstream operations, and some of the key challenges and opportunities facing the sector.
Omar Sayeed, Centre of Excellence Leader for Reliability, and Rahul Negi, Director of AI and Industrial Autonomous, Honeywell Process Solutions, consider how new, innovative technology can help to overcome some of the challenges facing the downstream oil and gas sector.