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McDermott selected by Abraxas Power for Canada’s first commercial green hydrogen and ammonia production facility

McDermott International, Inc. (Houston) has been awarded an Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) agreement from Abraxas Power Corporation for the Exploits Valley Renewable Energy Corporation (EVREC) project located in Central Newfoundland. The project represents Canada's first commercial green hydrogen and ammonia…

Neste, Borealis and Covestro collaborating on tire-recycling projects

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland), Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria) and Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) have signed a project agreement to enable the recycling of discarded tires into high-quality plastics for automotive applications. The collaboration aims at driving circularity in plastics value…

Wood completes preliminary engineering work for the world’s largest CCS hub in Saudi Arabia

Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has completed the front-end engineering and design (FEED) scope for the first phase of Aramco’s Accelerated Carbon Capture and Sequestration (ACCS) project in Saudi Arabia, expected to be the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration (CCS)…

BASF and NGK release advanced sodium-sulfur batteries

BASF Stationary Energy Storage GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), and NGK Insulators Ltd. (NGK), a Japanese ceramics manufacturer, have released an advanced container-type NAS battery (sodium-sulfur battery) . The new product NAS MODEL L24 has…

TotalEnergies and Air Products sign agreement for the delivery of green hydrogen

TotalEnergies (Paris, France) and Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) have signed a 15-year agreement for the annual supply in Europe of 70,000 tons of green hydrogen starting in 2030. This first long-term deal follows TotalEnergies’ call for tenders for the…

Hitachi Energy joins DOE’s H2@Scale hydrogen project in Texas

Hitachi Energy has joined the U.S. Department of Energy’s ‘H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond’ initiative with GTI Energy, Frontier Energy, The University of Texas Austin, and other industry stakeholders and partners. For the project, Hitachi Energy is contributing its market-leading…

Altris and Stora Enso in partnership to develop hard carbon anode material for sodium-ion batteries

Altris AB (Uppsala, Sweden), a developer and prototype manufacturer of sodium-ion batteries, and Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland), a provider of renewable products in packaging, biomaterials and wooden construction, are proud to announce a partnership. Together, the two companies will…

Agilyx announces successful demonstration of polystyrene depolymerization technology in Japan

Advanced plastics-recycling specialist Agilyx ASA announced that its depolymerization technology was successfully demonstrated during commissioning of Toyo Styrene’s 10 ton-per-day chemical recycling facility in Japan. The recycling plant will convert post-use polystyrene into a styrene monomer enabled by Agilyx depolymerization…

BASF joins research project to produce bio-based fumaric acid using bacteria

In the quest to transform sugar and carbon dioxide into fumaric acid, an important intermediate for chemical production, in this case, using the bacterium Basfia succiniciproducens, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is collaborating with Saarland University, University of Marburg and the…

Technip Energies and Turner Industries awarded EPC contract for ExxonMobil CCUS system in Louisiana

Technip Energies (Paris), in consortium with Turner Industries, has been awarded the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract by ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions Onshore Storage LLC. Technip Energies will oversee the engineering and procurement while Turner Industries will be responsible…