This weekend marks a number of big occasions. First and foremost, it is Memorial Day, when we honor and remember the men and women of the United States Armed Forces who have died while serving their country. Second, I turn 35 this weekend, which has me officially feeling on the wrong side of “young.” And […]
Jeremy Rifkin recently published a book called The Zero Marginal Cost Society. As an industry analyst it is my job to stay on top of technologies that have the chance to transform industry. Indeed, when MHI went through a very throrough research project to identify megatrends that will reshape industry through 2025, all the trends […]
It’s been a busy week here at Logistics Viewpoints as we get ready to head to Las Vegas next week for JDA Focus, and Hollywood, FL the week after for Manhattan Momentum. There’s a bit of everything in the news this week, so let’s get right to it. Amazon tries its own deliveries Freight train […]
Tom Moroney, the Deepwater Technology Deployment Manager at Shell Oil, gave a presentation on Shell Oil’s approach to control towers, Big Data, and analytics at ARC’s Forum in February. They don’t call it a “control tower” – for Shell it is an “Integrated Operational Center.” And it is not a supply chain control tower – […]
March 24 marked the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound in Alaska. The impact of the oil spill is still being felt today. While the majority of species affected by the spill have recovered to pre-spill levels, and the commercial fishing industry has mostly recovered, federal scientists estimate that […]
Unconventional oil and gas production is a huge factor in the US. “Unconventionals” – which include shale gas, shale oil, and tight gas sands – accounted for over 8.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas production in 2011, more than 26 percent of the total US gas production. Key Shale and Tight Sand Regions (Source: […]
Over the past few years, fuel production in the United States has seen a marked increase, largely due to the widespread adoption of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, whereby pockets of natural gas and crude oil trapped deep in the shale layer far below the earth’s surface are extracted via a horizontal drilled well. During the […]