If oil and gas from the domestic shale boom are going to take the US to energy independence, will it be by pipeline, rail, or truck? Production and consumption patterns were at the center of the decades-long development of America’s pipeline infrastructure, which actually dates all th
As the domestic energy industry races to become self-sufficient – if not emerge eventually as a global titan, at least in the natural gas realm – one segment that’s been a straggler is finally stepping up. That’s refining. America’s refineries provide fu