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Wood and OMV enter partnership to license chemical-recycling technology

OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) and Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enter into a mutually exclusive collaboration agreement for the commercial licensing of OMV’s proprietary ReOil technology. The two companies aim to agree on a…

Itochu and Neste undertaking SAF-blending project in Japan

Itochu Corp. (Tokyo) has been selected for a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) demonstration project by the Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). The aim of the project is to demonstrate the blending of imported…

JGC begins development work on carbon-capture technology using LNG cold energy

JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) announced that domestic EPC operating company JGC Japan Corporation (JGC Japan) has started technical development on carbon dioxide (CO2) capture applying unused cold energy from liquefied natural gas (LNG). These efforts support development and demonstration in…

Alfa Laval supplies heat exchangers to the world’s largest green hydrogen plant

Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden) has signed an agreement to deliver compact heat exchangers to the world’s largest green hydrogen plant, which is to be constructed in the Middle East. The facility, powered by renewable energy, will be part of…

Baker Hughes invests to scale up Levidian’s methane-cracking technology

Baker Hughes (Houston) has backed Levidian’s world-first decarbonization technologies with a £12m investment at a £130m valuation – opening up global collaboration opportunities. The cash injection will enable the further scale up of Levidian’s business, including both LOOP, Levidian’s decarbonization…

Planning practically for hydrogen

The U.S. Energy Information Admin. (Washington, D.C.; www.eia.gov) projects a nearly 50% increase in global energy use by 2050. Coinciding with this demand explosion, ambitious sustainability targets are necessitating a widespread transition to more climate-friendly technologies. Hydrogen is poised as…

SLB and Linde collaborate on carbon capture and sequestration

SLB (formerly Schlumberger) and Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that they have entered into a strategic collaboration on carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) projects to accelerate decarbonization solutions across industrial and energy sectors. The collaboration will combine decades of…

Ineos signs agreement with Plastic Energy for 100,000-ton plastic-waste conversion plant

London-based firms INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe and Plastic Energy have announced a Memorandum Of Understanding to produce 100,000 tons per year of recycled raw materials from plastic waste. This will be the largest use of Plastic Energy technology on…

Fluor selected for Wyoming’s Project Bison carbon-capture facility

CarbonCapture Inc., a U.S. climate tech company that develops direct air capture (DAC) systems based on a groundbreaking modular open systems architecture, today announced the selection of Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.), a leading global engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firm,…

Axens and Idemitsu collaborating on sustainable aviation fuels project in Japan

Idemitsu Kosan Co. (Tokyo) selected Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) technology developed by Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) for its first Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) project in Japan, contributing to Japan energy transitions in the field of aviation. Axens ATJ solution is a process by…