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Consortium to study potential “blue” ammonia value chain between Siberia and Japan

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo), Irkutsk Oil Company (IOC), Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp. (JOGMEC) and Itochu Corp. agreed on a joint feasibility study related to the development of the blue ammonia value chain between eastern Siberia and Japan.…

MHI and Equinor sign MoU to develop hydrogen and carbon capture projects

Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a low-carbon technology collaboration. The non-exclusive cooperation agreement will see both companies develop and use technology to reduce…

Solvay to decarbonize cyclopentanone production unit in France

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has begun a process of decarbonizing the cyclopentanone unit of its Melle plant in France. Through an agreement with an agricultural cooperative for the next fifteen years, the entire cyclopentanone production already relies solely on biomethane gas, a…

Haldor Topsoe and Aker Carbon Capture to cooperate on low-carbon hydrogen solutions

Aker Carbon Capture (Lysaker, Norway) and Haldor Topsoe (Lyngby, Denmark) have signed a memorandum of understanding with the intention to offer a complete solution for low-carbon hydrogen production. The solution combines Haldor Topsoe’s proven hydrogen process and Aker Carbon Capture’s…

Carbon Clean and Veolia join forces for CCUS projects in India

Carbon Clean (London) has joined forces with Veolia (Paris, France) to exclusively develop multiple green projects in India. The newly established joint company Veolia Carbon Clean will first develop two carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) and compressed biogas (CBG)…

Braskem partners with Agilyx, UIC on advanced recycling and carbon capture

Agilyx Corp. (Tigard, Ore.) and Braskem S.A. (Philadelphia, Pa.) announced the initiation of a feasibility study to explore the development and construction of an advanced plastics recycling project in North America. The project aims to examine an efficient pathway to…

Borealis and Bionerga commission waste-to-energy plant in Belgium

Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) and Bionerga announced the joint commissioning of Biostoom, a new waste-to-energy plant constructed and operated by Bionerga in Beringen, Belgium. The long-term agreement between Borealis and Bionerga, a Belgium-based specialist in recovering energy from waste,…

Axens’ technology selected by Sumitomo Chemical for a waste-to-polyolefins project

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) signed a license agreement of ethanol-to-ethylene technology Atol for Sumitomo Chemical’s waste-to-polyolefins project in Japan. In the project Axens’ Atol technology will transform ethanol produced from waste into polymer-grade ethylene that…

Haldor Topsoe technologies selected for Grön Fuels’ new renewable-diesel plant

Grön Fuels, LLC has selected Haldor Topsoe’s (Lyngby, Denmark) HydroFlex renewable fuels and H2bridge bio-hydrogen technologies with bio-carbon capture and sequestration option for a multi-billion low-carbon-intensity complex in Louisiana. The new facility, located at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge,…

LG Chem to run Wuxi cathode-materials plant on 100% renewable power

LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) announced the conclusion of an agreement for the supply of 140 GWh of renewable energy for its cathode-materials factory (Leyou New Energy Materials) in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China from the local wind and solar…