Workforce Development

Downstream companies launch diversity recruiting campaigns

Oct 2, 2019

With nearly half of the downstream industry’s worker base on track to retire by 2035, hundreds of thousands of women and minorities will help fill the ranks through the next decade and beyond.

Calling all Innovators: Downstream Awards Nominations Open

Sep 3, 2019

The Downstream Awards 2019 will be taking place on 19th November in Houston, Texas to bring together the best of the best in the industry. The deadline to nominate is September 6, 2019.

Canada’s petrochemical industry sees tech innovation as labor tightening looms

Aug 7, 2019

Canadian petrochemical companies are seeing technological innovations to cut emissions, increase recyclability of plastics and future benefits from developments in robotics, and artificial intelligence will increasingly find a place in an industry that is...

Why the workforce issue is as important as safety

Jan 30, 2019

Chronic shortages of skilled labor are increasing costs and schedules and resulting in declining productivity, lower quality, more accidents and missed objectives. However, an industry program is set to cut costs, risks and spur workforce development.

Sourcing workers is downstream industry's most pressing challenge—execs

Nov 14, 2018

The U.S. energy and petrochemical industry has experienced incredible growth over the last decade. The extended period of profitability has caused another surge in downstream investment, but leaders from across the major energy companies have identified one...

Webinar: Supply Chain 4.0 - Increasingly Critical for Competitive Edge

Sep 7, 2018

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2018, an increase of 6.2% from 2017, according to industry forecasts.

Petrochemical Update parent company FCBI targets growth with private equity investment

Sep 7, 2018

Leading global b2b events specialist FC Business Intelligence (FCBI), announced that mid-market private equity investor LDC has backed the management buyout of the company.

Gauging industry digitization: capital projects turn to innovation, recruitment teams

Jul 12, 2018

Market surveys reveal the downstream industry lags other sectors in adopting digital technology to boost productivity, but significant capital investment is pushing innovation and changes to education faster than ever before, executives told Petrochemical...

Presentations announced at the Downstream 2018 Exhibition; Free pass registration is open

May 17, 2018

Petrochemical Update announced workforce development sessions and updates on key innovations at the Downstream 2018 exhibition (May 31 – June 1, Galveston, Texas).

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