Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. CARSON, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 10: In an aerial view, Marathon ...

Because of an archaic refining infrastructure, America’s oil industry is in the curious position of shipping much of what it extracts to foreign refineries for processing, while importing what it can ...

The Cabinda oil refinery in Angola, the first that was built in the country since it gained independence from Portugal 50 years ago, has started shipping fuels to the domestic and international ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to University of Texas engineering professor Hugh Daigle about why the U.S. imports most of the oil it consumes despite being one of the world's largest oil exporters. The ...

Twenty years. Eighteen billion dollars. Zero functional refineries. These numbers capture Nigeria's greatest industrial tragedy-not engineering failure, but organised impunity. Now, just as Nigerians ...

NNPC has signed a new refinery rehabilitation deal with Chinese firms Sanjiang Chemical Company Limited and Xinganchen (Fuzhou) Industrial Park Operation and Management Co. Ltd Critics question the ...