Shell's floating liquid natural gas (LNG) facility will allow the estimated 3 trillion cubic feet of gas off the coast of Australia to be economically developed. It will be the world's largest floating structure: 488 meters long and more than four football fields end to end.

AIChE Chem-E-Car competitions are a huge attraction at AIChE student regional conferences and the national con

The United States imports approximately one million barrels of oil per day from Canada, about twice the amount from

CEP's (Chemical Engineering Progress) biennial salary survey is presented in the June 2011 issue. Look for it in print, on AIChE.org/CEP, or on a future post here. In addition to questions about facts, figures, and demographic data, respondents were asked three open-ended questions. The most interesting of them was...

Singapore used to depend heavily on Malaysia for treated water, but now it uses state-of-the-art technology to recycle sewage and other wastewater, producing water that is claimed to be as pure as distilled water.

The fabled Human Genome Project—the $3.8-billion international mapping effort led by the United States that ran from 1988 to 2003—was one of the last "big government" research projects, although the internet, originally a small, DARPA project, was quietly gaining momentum in the background. The ambitiously stated HGP goal, "to understand the human genome," felt t oskeptics a little too Star-Treky, representing the rump-end of Kenndy-Johnson-era big government idealism. I don't even want to talk about the loss caused by the long-aborted Texas Super Collider.