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Air Products and Gunvor planning green-hydrogen import terminal in Rotterdam

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and Gunvor Petroleum Rotterdam (GPR), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gunvor Group (Gunvor), have signed a joint development agreement for an import terminal in Rotterdam. The agreement responds to the accelerating demand for green energy sources…

Neste acquires European rights to Alterra Energy’s thermochemical liquefaction technology for plastics recycling

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has purchased the European rights to the Alterra Energy (Akron, Ohio) liquefaction technology, further solidifying the company’s efforts to advance chemical recycling. Alterra Energy is a U.S.-based company that has developed a proprietary thermochemical solution for…

ExxonMobil, Grieg Edge, North Ammonia, GreenH to assess low-emission hydrogen/ammonia hub in Norway

ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston), Grieg Edge, North Ammonia and GreenH have signed a memorandum of understanding to study potential production and distribution of green hydrogen and ammonia for lower-emission marine fuels at ExxonMobil’s Slagen terminal in Norway. The study will explore…

PTTGC to construct new recycling complex in Ohio

PTT Global Chemical PLC (PTTGC; Bangkok, Thailand) announced that PTTGC America (GCA) and the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO) have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to locate a new recycling complex on SWACO property. GCA, the U.S.…

Black & Veatch supporting green-hydrogen production project in Ireland

Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.) is supporting Mercury renewables in its development of one of Ireland’s first co-located onshore wind farm and hydrogen electrolysis plants. A 75-megawatt wind farm will power an electrolyzer plant generating green hydrogen. Black &…

VTT and Neste building an integrated power-to-liquids demonstration facility

Power-to-Liquids technologies are on their way to commercialization in scale. E-fuels offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels in existing internal combustion engines. The end product is a transportation…

Tata Chemicals Europe opens U.K.’s largest carbon-capture plant

Tata Chemicals Europe opened the U.K.'s first industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant today, signalling a key milestone in the race to meet the UK's net zero targets. The £20 million investment has been completed by U.K.-based Tata Chemicals…

Everfuel and Greenstat make progress on 20-MW green-H2 project in Norway

Everfuel A/S (Herning, Denmark) and Greenstat ASA (Bergen, Norway) announced the award a grant of NOK 148 million (around $15 million) from Enova to support the development of the Hydrogen Hub Agder. The hub includes the construction of a 20-MW…

BASF and Shell validating adsorption technologies for green-hydrogen production

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has worked with Shell to evaluate and de-risk BASF’s Puristar R0-20 and Sorbead Adsorption Technology for the use in green-hydrogen production. The two technologies purify and dehydrate the product hydrogen stream from the water electrolysis process…

TÜV SÜD launches new hydrogen-safety certifications

TÜV SÜD has announced two new certification marks, one for the certification of fuel-cell systems and one for components of hydrogen systems. By using these marks, manufacturers can inspire trust in the safety and performance of their systems and components.…