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Eni to acquire Italian biogas producer FRI-EL Biogas Holding

Eni S.p.A.’s (Rome, Italy) subsidiary Ecofuel, the company responsible for managing Eni’s investments in the circular economy, and FRI-EL Greenpower, a Gostner family holding, leader in the sectors of electricity production from renewable sources, have reached an agreement for Eni…

Eastman to upgrade extrusion capacity at Springfield facility

Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) announced that it is making an investment to upgrade and expand its extrusion capabilities for production of interlayers product lines at its Springfield, Massachusetts, manufacturing facility. The investment will strengthen Eastman’s supply capability to respond…

KBR commissions ammonia revamp project in Russia

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced the successful commissioning of its ammonia revamp project for Acron PJSC (Acron), at its Dorogobuzh site in Russia. The plant performance post revamp has surpassed all guaranteed parameters. This plant was revamped to enhance the ammonia…

Invista completes technology upgrade at Victoria adiponitrile plant

Invista (Wichita, Kan.) has completed its project to bring the company’s most advanced adiponitrile (ADN) technology to its site in Victoria, Texas, on schedule, as part of the site’s regularly planned maintenance turnaround. The site will manage a controlled start-up…

Air Liquide completes first phase of 25-MW H2 electrolysis project in Taiwan

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) has completed the first phase of the construction of its planned 25-MW electrolysis hydrogen plants in the Tainan Technology Industrial Park in Taiwan. These plants will provide ultra-high purity hydrogen to the semiconductor industry as well…

Lotte Chemical selects Honeywell UOP technologies for phenol and acetone production

Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Lotte GS Chemical Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) will use Honeywell UOP Q-Max, Phenol 3G, and Evonik MSHP technologies to produce more than 565,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of phenol and acetone at its petrochemicals…

BASF and OMV start up isobutene plant using novel direct-production technology

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) have announced the successful start-up of ISO C4 plant for direct production of high-purity isobutene at the Burghausen site. The plant is based on a novel technology developed jointly by the…

Maire Tecnimont and Adani Enterprises to develop green-hydrogen projects in India

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy), through its subsidiaries NextChem, Stamicarbon and MET Development (MET DEV), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Adani Enterprises Ltd. (AEL) to explore the development of industrial projects using NextChem and Stamicarbon’s technologies and…

Mitsubishi signs MoU to study fuel-ammonia production project in Indonesia

Mitsubishi Corp, (MC; Tokyo) is joining partners Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), a national university in the Republic of Indonesia, and PT Panca Amara Utama (PAU) in an agreement to conduct a…

BP to develop the U.K.’s largest blue-hydrogen plant

Bp plc (London) announced that it is developing plans for the UK’s largest blue hydrogen production facility, targeting 1GW of hydrogen production by 2030. The project would capture and send for storage up to two million tons of carbon dioxide…