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Historic investment decision for transport and storage of CO2

Equinor, Shell and Total S.A. (Paris, France) have decided to invest in the Northern Lights project in Norway's first exploitation license for CO2 storage on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Plans for development and operation have been handed over to the…

Air Products to Invest $2 Billion for Coal-to-Methanol Project in Indonesia

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) has signed a definitive agreement for a long-term on-site contract for a world-scale coal-to-methanol production facility in Bengalon, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Under the long-term on-site contract, PT. Bakrie Capital Indonesia, part of the Bakrie Group,…

New project focuses on comprehensive hydrogen network in Poland

Poland's national oil and gas company Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo (PGNiG; Warsaw, Poland) has started working on projects for the use of hydrogen in the energy and automotive sectors. This initiative explores the possibility of storing and transporting hydrogen…

KBR selected by JX Nippon for carbon-capture feasibility study

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced  that it has been awarded a Master Service Agreement (MSA) and Feasibility Study by JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) Building on KBR’s strong and successful portfolio in this area, the study will…

Cargill and P&G sign license to commercialize bio-based acrylic acid technology

Procter & Gamble (P&G; Cincinnati, Ohio) has granted Cargill, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn.) an exclusive license that allows Cargill to further develop and commercialize a technology developed by P&G that converts lactic acid into bio-based acrylic acid, so that it can…

Evonik and Beiersdorf partner on CO2-based care products

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) and personal-care product manufacturer Beiersdorf AG (Hamburg, Germany) have reached an agreement on a research partnership. Its aim is to develop sustainable raw materials for care products, using carbon dioxide (CO2) as the starting material.…

NOVA Chemicals and Enerkem to collaborate on waste-to-ethylene technology

NOVA Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) and Enerkem Inc. (Montréal, Québec, Canada) have entered into a joint development agreement to explore turning non-recyclable and non-compostable municipal waste into ethylene, a basic building block of plastics. Working together, the companies will…

BP announces feasibility study for renewable-hydrogen production in Western Australia

BP plc (London, U.K.) has announced that bp Australia is taking part in a feasibility study related to an export-scale renewable hydrogen production facility in Western Australia.   The extensive study will help BP and the energy sector better understand the possibilities of using hydrogen…

New ‘Power to Methanol’ project announced by Inovyn

Inovyn, an Ineos company, has announced a “power to methanol” project in Antwerp, Belgium, which will produce methanol from captured CO2 combined with hydrogen that is generated from renewable electricity. Inovyn will contribute to a joint feasibility study as part…

Sulzer strengthens services offering for bio-based and renewable chemicals

Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) has announced the creation of a new global Bio-based and Renewables application development team, which will lead innovation for the conversion of renewable feedstocks into oleo-chemicals, biofuels, bio-chemicals and bio-polymers. It will also support the…