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TotalEnergies implements drones in global emissions-detection program

TotalEnergies (Paris) has launched a worldwide drone-based emissions detection and quantification campaign across all its upstream Oil & Gas operated sites. The campaign uses AUSEA technology developed by TotalEnergies, the French National Research Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and University…

Linde and bp plan major CCS project to advance decarbonization efforts across Texas Gulf Coast

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) and bp plc (London) announced plans to advance a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Texas that will enable low carbon hydrogen production at Linde’s existing facilities. The development will also support the storage…

Axens and Toray Films Europe considering new PET chemical recycling plant in France

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Toray Films Europe announced their collaboration to study a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) chemical recycling facility at Toray Films Europe production site in Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost (Ain, France). New units based on Axens’ Rewind PET technology will be coupled…

Borealis and Reclay launch recycling entity focused on lightweight packaging

Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) and the Reclay Group, international experts in environmental and material recovery management, announce the beginning of a new, jointly-founded entity, Recelerate GmbH. The new organization’s mission is to redesign the critical steps of the plastics sorting…

Technip Energies and Saulsbury Industries awarded EPC contract for ExxonMobil’s CCS expansion in Wyoming

Technip Energies (Paris), in consortium with Saulsbury Industries, has been awarded a contract for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) to expand the carbon capture and storage (CCS) at ExxonMobil’s LaBarge, Wyoming facility. The LaBarge plant has already captured more…

Phillips 66 makes final investment decision to convert San Francisco refinery into renewable fuels facility

Phillips 66 (Houston) made a final investment decision to move forward with Rodeo Renewed, the project to convert its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, into one of the world’s largest renewable-fuels facilities. The project, which recently received approval from…

Maire Tecnimont awarded EPC contract for 10-MW green hydrogen plant in India

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its Indian subsidiary Tecnimont Private Limited (TCMPL), in collaboration with NextChem, has been awarded an EPC contract by Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) to implement a 4.3-ton/day green-hydrogen production plant via a 10-megawatt PEM electrolysis unit to be located…

Chemours announces participation in Versogen’s development of clean hydrogen technology

The Chemours Company (Wilmington, Del.) announced its participation in a fundraising for Wilmington, Delaware-based Versogen Inc., a leader in developing anion exchange membrane (AEM) technology for use in hydrogen production. Founded by University of Delaware professor Yushan Yan, Versogen’s AEM…

BP signs offtake agreement with Clean Planet Energy for circular naphtha

bp plc (London) has signed a ten-year offtake agreement with Clean Planet Energy, a U.K.-based company that is developing facilities to convert hard-to-recycle waste plastics into circular petrochemical feedstocks and also into ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD). Clean Planet Energy designs…

Verbio inaugurates cellulosic RNG plant in Iowa

Verbio Vereinigte BioEnergie AG (Leipzig, Germany) has announced the inauguration of its new renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility in Nevada, Iowa. The plant will achieve full-scale production in summer 2022. Verbio CEO Claus Sauter: “The plant in Nevada (Iowa)…