Petrofac Ltd. (St. Helier, U.K.) has signed an agreement with carbon capture technology company, CO2 Capsol, which enables collaboration on carbon capture projects. Under the terms of the non-exclusive agreement, Petrofac will work as a preferred engineering services partner to…
ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is investing in the construction of a recycling plant in Targu Mures, Romania as part of a joint venture with its partners. The plastic granulate recycled there in the future will come from PET collected from…
In this episode of the Chemical Engineering Podcast, senior editor Scott Jenkins speaks with Ian Riley, the CEO of the World Cement Association (WCA) about the most widely produced human-made material in the world. Ian discusses the prospects for more…
Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell; The Hague, the Netherlands) announced a final investment decision to build an 820,000-ton/year biofuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, the Netherlands, formerly known as the Pernis refinery. Once built, the facility…
Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese), Eni’s chemical company, has acquired on an exclusive basis the technology and plants of Ecoplastic, an Italian company of the De Berg group specializing in the recovery, recycling and transformation chain of styrenic polymers. The…
Air Liquide SA (Paris) and Saras S.p.A. signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at exploring the solutions to reduce the carbon footprint of Saras’ Sarroch petroleum refinery in Italy, one of the most important refineries in Europe. As part…
Edison S.p.A. and Snam S.p.A. (both Milan, Italy) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) along with Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Alboran Hydrogen – who had both already signed a cooperation agreement last year - for the…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Aeroporti di Roma (ADR) have signed a strategic agreement to promote decarbonization initiatives in the aviation sector and accelerate the ecological transition of airports. Eni has been producing Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) biofuel in its…
Kinder Morgan, Inc. (Houston), one of North America’s largest energy infrastructure companies, is partnering with Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland), one of the leading providers of renewable and circular solutions, to create a premier domestic raw material storage and logistics hub…
Honeywell announced the completion of a commercial refinery trial with Preem AB (both Stockholm, Sweden) for co-processing of biomass-based pyrolysis oil in a fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) unit. Utilizing UOP’s proprietary bioliquid feed system with Optimix GF Feed Distributor, pyrolysis oil…