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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…

Messer joins European Clean Hydrogen Alliance

Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany) has joined the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance, where it will bring its extensive expertise in industrial gases to bear on the efficient and effective deployment of green hydrogen with partners across Europe. Stefan Messer,…

Ineos Styrolution and Recycling Technologies to collaborate on polystyrene recycling

INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) and Recycling Technologies, a specialist plastic recycling technology provider announced the signing of a joint development agreement (JDA) to further advance the development of recycling of polystyrene in Europe. Both companies share the same goals to…

Hydrogen-energy test facility to launch in U.K.

National Grid Group PLC (London) is partnering with Northern Gas Networks (NGN) and Fluxys Belgium to build a first of its kind offline hydrogen test facility in the U.K., to understand how hydrogen gas could be used in the future…