KBR, Inc. (Houston) has been awarded a contract by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, the managing and operating contractor of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), to provide engineering, advisory and evaluation services. NREL is a national laboratory within…
Air Products (Lehigh Valey, Pa.) announced that the Kochi Industrial Gas Complex is reliably supplying syngas to the Propylene Derivatives Petrochemical Project (PDPP) at the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) Kochi Refinery. This is the company’s second supply contract with…
W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.) has licensed its UNIPOL PP Process Technology and its UNIPOL UNIPPAC Process Control Software to Sinochem Hongrun Petrochemical Chemical Co., Ltd. (Sinochem Hongrun). The UNIPOL PP facility, located in Qingzhou, Weifang, Shandong, China will…
Kurita Water Industries Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) announces that it acquired 100% of the equity interests of Keytech Water Management (Ontario, Canada), a Canadian company that manufactures and sells water treatment chemicals and equipment systems, through Kurita Canada, Inc. The eastern…
Technip Energies (Paris, France) has provided the proprietary technology and process design for Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Chemical Co. Ltd.’s (Hengli) liquid ethylene plant in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China. The plant’s capacity is 1,500,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). The plant…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) announced significant strategic developments in the commercialisation of eLNO – its portfolio of leading nickel-rich advanced cathode. Partnership with Finnish Minerals Group to support development of JM’s previously announced second commercial plant, which will be…
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) announced its interest in exploring the hydrogen market with India’s public and private sectors to support India’s growing demand for energy and need for cleaner fuels according to His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed…
Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) has been working with Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas corporation, Pertamina, since 2018 to evaluate and test the feasibility of Clariant's sunliquid technology to process available regional feedstocks in Indonesia into the advanced biofuel, cellulosic ethanol.…
ITM Power plc (Sheffield, U.K.) has provided a HGas3SP (2MW) electrolyzer and supporting equipment to Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) for the publicly funded H2Pioneer project in Austria. One of the main goals of the H2Pioneer project is demonstrating the production…
Sinopec Capital, as the industrial investment arm of Sinopec Group (Beijing, China) has announced investment in LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.) with a focus on promoting direct production of chemicals from waste carbon. Found in everyday objects, petrochemicals are part of the…