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GTI launches Veritas, an initiative to measure methane emission reductions

Today, GTI (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.gti.energy) launched Veritas: a GTI Differentiated Gas Measurement and Verification Initiative to accelerate actions that reduce methane leakage from natural gas systems. The effort brings together scientists, academics, environmental organizations, certification organizations, and industry participants…

Honeywell and Wood launch technologies for sustainable aviation fuel production

Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) and Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) announced a comprehensive package of technologies to support the effort to produce carbon-neutral aviation fuel. When used together, the technologies, which are based on Honeywell’s UOP Ecofining process technology and Wood’s hydrogen plant…

Danimer Scientific and Chevron Phillips Chemical collaborate on biodegradable polymer technologies

Danimer Scientific, Inc. (Bainbridge, Ga.), a leading next generation bioplastics company focused on the development and production of biodegradable materials, today announced it is collaborating with Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem; The Woodlands, Tex.) to explore a loop slurry reactor design…

HeidelbergCement to pilot carbon capture project in Eastern Europe

HeidelbergCement has announced plans to pilot a carbon capture project in Eastern Europe. Project ACCSESS, a consortium led by Sintef Energi AS, Norway, aims to significantly cut the costs of the CCUS value chain, and to link CO2-emitters from mainland…

Argonne National Lab and Gevo collaborating on biofuels lifecycle assessment

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, Ill.) recently partnered with Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) to perform a critical lifecycle analysis of Gevo's next-generation technology. Using data provided by Gevo, Argonne’s Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Technologies (GREET)…

Repsol to begin operating 2.5-MW electrolyzer at Petronor refinery

Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) announced that it will start up the first electrolyzer in the northern Spanish region of the Basque Country in the second half of 2022, to produce renewable hydrogen at its Petronor refinery. The facility will have…

Adnoc, bp and Masdar sign framework agreement exploring clean-hydrogen hubs in the U.K. and U.A.E.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), bp plc and Masdar announced the signing of strategic framework agreements to expand upon the U.A.E. and U.K.’s longstanding track record of bilateral partnership in sustainability, including the potential development of clean hydrogen hubs…

Plug Power to build major green-hydrogen production facility in California

Plug Power (Latham, N.Y.) is expanding its green hydrogen ecosystem to the U.S. west coast with the construction of a new state-of-the-art production facility in Fresno County, California. Green hydrogen is produced through the electrolysis of water with electricity generated…

Petrofac and CO2 Capsol collaborate on carbon capture initiatives

Petrofac Ltd. (St. Helier, U.K.) has signed an agreement with carbon capture technology company, CO2 Capsol, which enables collaboration on carbon capture projects. Under the terms of the non-exclusive agreement, Petrofac will work as a preferred engineering services partner to…

ALPLA, partners to construct plastics recycling plant in Romania

ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is investing in the construction of a recycling plant in Targu Mures, Romania as part of a joint venture with its partners. The plastic granulate recycled there in the future will come from PET collected from…