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Pertamina, Keppel Infrastructure and Chevron exploring green hydrogen and ammonia projects in Indonesia

Pertamina Power Indonesia (Pertamina NRE), Keppel Infrastructure, through Keppel New Energy Pte. Ltd., and Chevron Corp., through Chevron New Energies International Pte. Ltd. (Chevron New Energies), have signed a Joint Study Agreement (JSA) to explore the development of selected green…

CE Podcast: Guest Gavin Towler of Honeywell UOP discusses decarbonization

This episode of the CE Podcast features Honeywell UOP Chief Technology Officer Gavin Towler discussing the current state of key energy-transition technologies. Towler talks with Chemical Engineering magazine senior editor Scott Jenkins about hydrogen generation and storage, carbon capture and…

Wood wins FEED contract for Gen2 Energy’s green hydrogen project in Norway

Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has been awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) scope for Gen2 Energy’s green hydrogen production facility, located in Mosjøen in northern Norway. Gen2 Energy is a Norwegian company dedicated to developing, building, owning and operating an…

Técnicas Reunidas and Allied Methanol to develop an integrated methanol and ammonia plant in Australia

Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) and Allied Methanol Pty. Ltd. have signed an agreement to develop an integrated methanol and blue ammonia production plant in Darwin, in the Northern Territory, Australia.  The plant configuration will enable carbon emissions to…

Asahi Kasei starts construction of alkaline electrolysis pilot plant for hydrogen production

Asahi Kasei (Tokyo) has started the construction of an alkaline water electrolysis pilot test plant for hydrogen production at its Kawasaki Works. Construction and operation of the plant is supported by the “Green Innovation Fund1” of Japan’s New Energy and…

KBR to help reduce emissions at Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemicals sites

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd. (DFPCL) to help three DFPCL plants achieve lower emissions and simultaneously increase production capacity. “We have a long-standing relationship with DFPCL and…

Solvay partnering with Ostium to enable recycling of single-use surgical instruments

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has teamed up with French startup Ostium in a joint project designed to enable the mechanical recycling of end-of-life single-use surgical instruments molded in glass-fiber reinforced Ixef polyarylamide (PARA) from Solvay’s portfolio of specialty polymers. The initiative is the first for valuable…

KBR and Tractebel to help Engie deliver Australia’s first industrial scale green hydrogen project

KBR’s (Houston) Infrastructure Solutions business is growing its presence in the Australian renewable hydrogen market. KBR, with Tractebel, have recently been appointed as the Owners Engineer for the YURI Project – a new renewable hydrogen energy facility in the Pilbara,…

Ascend Performance Materials acquires majority stake in recycling firm Circular Polymers

Ascend Performance Materials (Houston) has purchased a majority stake in California-based Circular Polymers, a recycler of post-consumer, high-performance polymers including polyamide 6 and 66, polypropylene and polyester (PET). The deal provides Ascend with a consistent supply of high-quality PCR materials…

BP and Mauritania to explore green hydrogen at scale

Bp plc (London) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Mauritania under which it will deliver an innovative programme exploring the potential for large-scale production of green hydrogen in the country. Building on bp’s existing strong relationships…