INEOS (London) has today completed the formation of a 50/50 joint venture (JV) with Sinopec for the Tianjin Nangang Ethylene Project, announced in December 2022, which is currently under construction by SINOPEC and expected to be on-stream by April 2024.…
Rio Tinto (London) has awarded Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) a detailed design and engineering contract for their continuous pilot plant (CPP) for the BioIron process for low-carbon ironmaking. The contract is an extension of the work that Rio Tinto and…
Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) has been engaged by Australian renewable-energy firm Ark Energy Corp. Pty. Ltd. on behalf of the Han-Ho H2 Consortium to deliver a Feasibility Study to support the development of the Han-Ho H2 Hub Project. The…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) has announced that Shandong Haike Chemical Co. Ltd, a Chinese refining and petrochemical company, has selected Axens’ Vegan technology to produce low carbon, cost competitive sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by retrofitting its existing assets. Vegan technology is…
Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) and ZoneFlow Reactor Technologies, LLC (ZFRT; Windsor, Conn.) announced that they successfully conducted pilot plant testing of the ZoneFlow Reactor in ZFRT’s large-scale pilot plant at Université Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. The near-commercial-level…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has expanded and started production at its rubber silanes plant, Evonik Lanxing (Rizhao) Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd. This state-of-the-art facility, a joint venture between Evonik Industries AG, DEG (Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH), and Rizhao Lanxing…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) is delivering concept and front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies for nearly 2,000 miles of onshore low-carbon pipelines in North America. Wood’s experts have designed five of the longest pipelines in the U.S. to date and…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that it has been awarded a contract by LanzaTech UK Limited to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for one of the United Kingdom’s (UK) first planned commercial sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facilities in…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany;) has signed an agreement to scale up and produce custom catalyst for Röhm GmbH’s (Darmstadt, Germany) new methyl methacrylate (MMA) production plant in Bay City, Texas, which is due to be opened in 2024. “This…
Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has signed an agreement with World Energy GH2 (Newfoundland, Canada) solutions provider, to provide Topsoe’s dynamic ammonia-loop technology for Canada’s largest, and one of the world’s first-to-market, renewable hydrogen projects — Project Nujio’qonik. Located in the…