Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) is working with Centrica Storage to evaluate the feasibility of transforming its Easington gas processing terminal to a low-carbon production hub. Centrica Storage has partnered with Equinor on this project to deliver hydrogen to the Humber…
ArcelorMittal Corp. (Luxembourg) and Sekisui Chemical Co. (Osaka, Japan) have been partnering on a project to capture and reuse CO2 emitted during steelmaking. As part of this partnership, the two companies have been supported by the New Energy and Industrial…
AGC (Tokyo) announced that its subsidiary AGC Si-Tech Co. is increasing production capacity for Resifa Sunsphere, a silica product used in cosmetic products made from natural sources. At the Company's Wakamatsu Plant (Wakamatsu-Ward, Kitakyushu City), facility expansion will be implemented…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and thyssenkrupp Uhde (Essen, Germany) announced their cooperation in the marketing and further development of catalyst and process design for thyssenkrupp Uhde’s leading EnviNOx technology for N2O and NOx abatement. BASF will supply its high-performance catalysts…
Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) is opening a new plant in Kharagpur, eastern India, and continues to expand production capacity in the fast-growing Indian market. The plant will manufacture mortar products, concrete admixtures, and shotcrete accelerators for customers in the West…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for April 2023 (most recent available) rose compared to the previous month’s value, the second consecutive monthly rise. The April values saw small increases in all four subindices (Equipment; Buildings;…
As part of the "Hydrom Phase A Round 1" call for projects, the consortium led by Engie S.A. (La Défense, Courbevoie, France) and POSCO (Pohang-si, South Korea) was awarded land block (Z1-02) by Hydrom, the orchestrator and master planner of…
The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco; Dhahran) and TotalEnergies SE (Paris) awarded Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts for the $11 billion Amiral complex, a future world scale petrochemicals facility expansion at the SATORP refinery in the Kingdom of Saudi…
Vertex Energy, Inc. (Houston) announced that the Company has completed its first series of commercial sales transactions of renewable diesel (RD) from its recently completed Renewable Diesel production facility at its refinery located in Mobile, Alabama (the “Mobile Refinery”). The…
Trane Technologies plc (Swords, Ireland) announced its participation in three projects accelerating next-generation heat-pump efficiency to reduce energy and emissions across multiple industrial sectors. These projects were recently awarded U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grants for the research and development…