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Engie and Equinor sign MOU to develop low-carbon hydrogen projects

Engie S.A. (La Défense, Courbevoie, France) and Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway)  announced an MoU to develop low carbon hydrogen projects together. Now the two companies move forward and announce the H2BE project which aims to develop production of low-carbon…

Linde and Hive Hydrogen detail green-H2 and ammonia project in South Africa

Hive Hydrogen and Linde plc announced the establishment of a 780,000 ton/year $4.6bn Green Ammonia Plant with its own dedicated power supply at the Coega Special Economic Zone alongside the Port of Ngqura in South Africa. There is massive surge…

PKN Orlen to construct bioethanol production plant in Poland

PKN Orlen (Płock, Poland) and ORLEN Południe, an ORLEN Group company, have signed an agreement providing for the construction of an advanced industrial unit that would produce second-generation bioethanol. Located at the Jedlicze refinery, the project would be the first…

Mitsui Chemicals to adopt bio-based hydrocarbon feedstock at Osaka site

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it is preparing to launch what will be Japan’s first production of biomass derivatives from bio-based hydrocarbons, a move that promises to help further the adoption of biomass plastic and bring society one step…

Cemex and Carbon8 collaborating on CCUS technologies for cement production

Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. (Monterrey, Mexico) announced that it is working together with Carbon8 Systems to evaluate the company’s patented carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology and how CO2 captured during the cement production process can be used to…

Marathon-ADM JV to build soybean-processing plant in North Dakota for renewable diesel feedstock

Marathon Petroleum Corp. (Findlay, Ohio) and ADM (Chicago) announced the closing of their joint venture to produce soybean oil to supply the rapidly growing demand for renewable diesel fuel. The joint venture, which is named Green Bison Soy Processing, LLC,…

BioAccelergy and ExxonMobil to explore commercial-scale development of bio-based stocks for lubricants

BioAccelergy Ventures (Houston) has signed a joint-development agreement with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (ExxonMobil) to progress development of a new bio-base stock for lubricants manufacturing from seed and vegetable oil. The multi-year agreement aims to demonstrate the feasibility of producing…

Five Dow sites receive ISCC PLUS certification for use of sustainable feedstock

Dow (Midland, Mich.) announced that five of its largest manufacturing sites in Freeport, Texas (USA), Tarragona (Spain), Terneuzen (Netherlands), Boehlen (Germany) and Schkopau (Germany) have received International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS recognition for their compliance with rigorous tracking…

Svante partners with Kiewit to develop industrial-scale carbon capture projects in North America

Svante, Inc. (Burnaby, B.C., Canada) and Kiewit Energy Group Inc. have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a strategic alliance to pursue industrial carbon capture projects under development by industrial carbon emitter clients in the U.S. and…

Monolith and Goodyear to collaborate on sustainable carbon-black production

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) announced that it has signed a collaboration agreement and letter of intent with Monolith Materials (Lincoln, Neb.) for the development and potential use of carbon black produced from methane and/or biomethane for…