OTCMKTS:HCGS | Emulsifiers And Wetting Agents

Flotek Industries (NYSE:FTK) and HighCom Global Security (OTCMKTS:HCGS) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and earnings.

A Halliburton executive who served as head of its cementing operations at the time of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster testified March 12 that the cement slurry used to seal the well "had a low probability of success."

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In Louisiana, seventeen cows died after an hour’s exposure to spilled fracking fluid. (Most likely cause of death: respiratory failure.) In north central Pennsylvania, 140 cattle were exposed to fracking wastewater when an impoundment was breached. Approximately seventy cows died; the remainder produced eleven calves, of which only three survived. In western Pennsylvania, an overflowing waste pit sent fracking chemicals into a pond and a pasture where pregnant cows grazed: half their calves were born dead. The following year’s animal births were sexually skewed, with ten females and two males, instead of the usual 50-50 or 60-40 split.

Aubin’s pumpable subsea lifting technologies offer the oil and gas industry a new method of placing, moving and lifting assets and equipment on and around the seabed.

Fracking proponents criticize Bamberger and Oswald’s paper as a political, not a scientific, document. “They used anonymous sources, so no one can verify what they said,” Steve Everley, of the industry lobby group Energy In Depth, says. The authors didn’t provide a scientific assessment of impacts—testing what quaternary ammonium compounds might do to cows that drink it, for example—so treating their findings as scientific, he continues, “is laughable at best, and dangerous for public debate at worst.” (Bamberger and Oswald acknowledge this lack of scientific assessment and blame the dearth of funding for fracking research and the industry’s use of nondisclosure agreements.)

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Dodecanol also called as Lauryl alcohol or 1-dodecanol is classified as a fatty alcohol. It is a colorless, tasteless solid with a floral smell. It is manufactured by hydrogenation of palm kernel or coconut oil fatty acids. The major use of dodecanol is as a chemical intermediate for the manufacture of dodecyl sulfate and dodecyl ethoxylate. Additionally, it is used as a vital raw material in the manufacture of surfactants. It is also used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, lubricating oils, flavoring agents and as an emollient among other.

Cathay Industries is based in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and opened in 1979 (as Cathay Pigments Group). Since then the company has grown; and, as bloomberg.com describes it, “offers iron oxides, chrome oxides, titanium dioxides, heat stables, organic pigments, solvent dyes, food dyes, and umbers. It also provides a range of pigments, as well as chemicals related to color industries, including plasticizers, defoamers, dispersants, and cement and other additives.”​

Demand for processed food & beverages will continue to rise, as fast-paced lifestyle of consumers and new business models keep transforming the overall food retail industry. CMC has been seeking extensive employment in the food & beverages industry as thickening and stabilizing agent, gaining popularity as a cost-effective alternative to other cellulose derivatives. Manufacturers are incorporating carboxymethyl cellulose as cold stabilizers in frozen food & beverage products, thereby cutting down high expenditure on other expensive cold stabilizers.

The sorbitan esters market is expected to gain momentum during the forecast period due to a growth of end user industry. The global sorbitan esters market is primarily driven by the increasing demand for personal care products and consumer care products. Besides, standards from FDA, also aid in the growth of sorbitan esters market. Growth in a bakery and confectionary industry also boost the global sorbitan esters market since it is widely used as emulsifiers in ice-creams and other confectionary products. The global sorbitan esters market is segmented on the basis of sorbitan ester type, application and end user.