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Gevo and Praj to commercialize sustainable aviation fuel in India

Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) and Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India) have signed a binding, definitive Master Framework Agreement (MFA) to collaborate on providing renewable, low carbon, low particulate, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and renewable premium gasoline in India and neighboring…

Siemens Energy signs green-hydrogen agreement with China Power

Siemens Energy and Beijing Green Hydrogen Technology Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Power International Development Ltd. (China Power), signed an agreement on providing a hydrogen production system for a hydrogen fueling station. Located in Yanqing District, Beijing, one…

PPG and Berkeley National Lab receive DOE funding for sustainable coatings development

PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) for a research initiative aimed at developing energy-efficient coatings systems for the automotive industry. The PPG project – “Modeling Coating Flow and…

Neste to supply sustainable aviation fuel to three major U.S. airlines

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) is supplying Alaska Airlines, American Airlines and JetBlue Airways with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for flights from San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The low-carbon and high-quality fuel will contribute to each airline’s efforts to reach their…

Phillips 66 plans to transform San Francisco refinery into world’s largest renewable fuels plant

Phillips 66 (Houston) announced that it plans to reconfigure its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, to produce renewable fuels. The plant would no longer produce fuels from crude oil, but instead would make fuels from used cooking oil, fats,…

Eastman and Accsys form sustainable-wood joint venture

Sustainable wood specialist Accsys plc (London, U.K.)and Eastman Chemical Co. (Eastman, Tenn.) have formed a joint venture (JV) company, Accoya USA LLC. The joint venture intends to construct and operate an Accoya wood production plant to serve the North American…

Repsol and Acteco join forces for polyolefins recycling

Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) and French plastics recycler Acteco will implement a project to increase the capacity for production of high-quality recycled polyolefins at Acteco’s plant in Ibi, Alicante (Spain). The recycled product from this plant will be included in…

ExxonMobil signs renewable-diesel purchase agreement with Global Clean Energy

ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) has signed an agreement with Global Clean Energy Holdings to purchase 2.5 million barrels of renewable diesel per year for five years from a converted California refinery starting in 2022. The renewable diesel will be sourced…

Hyundai and Jemena ink green-hydrogen supply deal in Australia

Energy infrastructure company Jemena (Melbourne, Australia) signed a new deal to supply Australia’s emerging zero emission vehicle industry with renewably generated green hydrogen. Jemena has committed, through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hyundai Australia and Coregas, to produce and…

Petrofac and Storegga sign MOU for CCUS, hydrogen projects

Petrofac Ltd. (St. Helier, U.K.)  has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with independent clean-energy specialist, Storegga Geotechnologies. The MOU builds new energy capability and capacity in the UK and represents a significant strategic step in Petrofac’s continued expansion into…