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thyssenkrupp Uhde and Genesis Fertilizers to conceptually develop reduced-emission fertilizer plant in Canada

thyssenkrupp Uhde (Dortmund, Germany) and Genesis Fertilizers Limited Partnership have signed a Pre-FEED (front-end engineering and design) contract to conceptually develop an integrated fertilizer complex to be located at Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan in Canada. The proposed plant will be designed…

The Best ProcessBook & PI Vision Alternatives

In this guide we’ll give you some tips for evaluating ProcessBook & PI Vision alternatives, and present some of the best PI Server data visualization tools available today. We’ll cover: Replacing ProcessBook Criteria for evaluating ProcessBook & PI Vision alternatives…

JGC awarded FEED contract for green hydrogen and methylcyclohexane project in Malaysia

JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) was awarded the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for a green hydrogen and methylcyclohexane (MCH) production plant in Malaysia by ENEOS Corp.  and Sumitomo Corp. . ENEOS and Sumitomo, in collaboration with SEDC Energy, a company…

MP Materials receives U.S. funding to progress construction of first U.S. manufacturing plant for rare-earth magnets

MP Materials (Las Vegas, Nev.) has received a $58.5 million award to advance its construction of America’s first fully-integrated rare earth magnet manufacturing facility. The Section 48C Advanced Energy Project tax credit allocation was issued by the IRS and Treasury…

SLB to acquire oilfield technologies firm ChampionX

SLB (Houston) and ChampionX Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.) announced a definitive agreement for SLB to purchase ChampionX in an all-stock transaction. The agreement was unanimously approved by the ChampionX board of directors. Under the terms of the agreement, ChampionX shareholders…

Shell and Verdagy to collaborate on renewable hydrogen projects

Verdagy (Moss Landing, Calif.) announced that Shell provided technical endorsement of Verdagy’s eDynamic electrolyzers. This major step qualifies Verdagy as a supplier in its upcoming green hydrogen projects. Verdagy worked with the Shell team to successfully complete a rigorous “HAZOP”…

Next Wave Energy Partners announces commercial operations of new ethylene-to-alkylate production facility

Next Wave Energy Partners, LP (Houston) a portfolio company of Energy Capital Partners (ECP), announced that its alkylate production facility, known as Project Traveler and located adjacent to the Houston Ship Channel in Pasadena, Texas, has achieved commercial operations. “We…

Ineos completes acquisition of TotalEnergies’ petrochemical assets at Lavera, France

INEOS Ltd. (London) completed the acquisition of TotalEnergies’ 50% share of Naphtachimie (720,000-ton/yr steam cracker), Appryl (300,000-ton/yr polypropylene business), Gexaro (270,000-ton/yr aromatics business) and 3TC[1] (naphtha storage) announced on July 5th. These businesses have until today been joint ventures between…

Ørsted selected for DOE funding negotiations related to e-Methanol plant on U.S. Gulf Coast

Ørsted (Chicago, Ill.), a leading U.S. clean energy developer, announced it has been selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations to begin award negotiations for up to $100 million in federal funding to construct a…

Sabic Fujian Petrochemical to license Lummus ethylene and co-monomer technologies

Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that SABIC Fujian Petrochemical Co., Ltd.’s grassroots complex in Fujian Province, China, will leverage Lummus’ ethylene and co-monomer technologies. SABIC Fujian Petrochemicals Co., Ltd. is a joint venture between SABIC Industrial Investment Company (wholly owned by…