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McDermott wins pre-FEED contract for Tata Steel emissions-reduction project in the Netherlands

McDermott International, Ltd. (Houston) announced it has been awarded a Pre Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract from Tata Steel B.V. for the Enhancing Value by Emissions Reuse and Emission Storage (EVEREST) Project. Tata Steel has launched the preparatory plans for a…

Black & Veatch partners with Golar LNG on floating ammonia and H2 production

Black & Veatch (B&V; Overland Park, Kan.) and Golar LNG announce the expansion of their long-standing collaboration, focusing on broadening floating production of blue and green hydrogen and ammonia. The memo of understanding between Golar, an operator of carriers for…

Versalis partners with devulcanization specialist for recycled-rubber processing

Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese), Eni's chemical company and a leader in the production and marketing of elastomers, and AGR, company that owns technology for the devulcanization of post-consumer elastomers, have signed an agreement to develop technological innovations and new…

Phillips 66 installs new production unit to process used cooking oils into renewable fuels

Phillips 66 (Houston) announced that its Humber Refinery in the U.K. recently welcomed the latest addition to its growing renewable fuels infrastructure: a massive processing unit that will convert used cooking oil into low-carbon fuel. “We are pleased to take…

Genomatica and Aquafil to scale up renewable nylon production with new demo plant

Genomatica (San Diego, Calif.) signed a first-of-its-kind deal with Aquafil S.p.A. (Arco, Italy) to build a demonstration-scale facility to produce the largest quantity of 100% renewable nylon-6 ever available. Responding to surging consumer interest in sustainable products, the material will…

SUEZ and BP collaborate on Net Zero Teesside CCUS project

SUEZ (Paris, France) and bp plc (London) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the feasibility of the U.K.’s first carbon capture and storage project from energy-from-waste. The Net Zero Teesside Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) project plans…

Shell and Nexus announce supply agreement for production of chemicals from plastic waste

Nexus Fuels LLC (Atlanta, Ga.; www.nexusfuels.com) and Shell (Houston, Tex.; www.shell.com/chemicals) today announced a supply agreement, for 60,000 tonnes over four years, of pyrolysis liquid made from plastic waste, which is then converted into chemical products.  Nexus, a leader in…

OMV Petrom invests €21 million to increase biofuels-blending capacity

OMV Petrom SA (Bucharest, Romania), the largest energy company in Southeastern Europe, has invested approximately €21 million at its Petrobrazi refinery in order to increase the bio-blending capacity and to improve the infrastructure for the transport, unloading and storage of…

AkzoNobel installs solar-power systems at manufacturing plants in Mexico and Spain

Thousands of solar panels have been installed at two AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) sites on two continents as the company continues to accelerate towards its ambition of cutting carbon emissions in half by 2030. The two recent projects have been…

Origin Energy to investigate export-scale green-hydrogen project in Tasmania

Origin Energy (Sydney, Australia) will conduct a $3.2 million feasibility study into building an export scale green hydrogen and ammonia plant in Tasmania’s Bell Bay. Under the proposal, green hydrogen will be produced from sustainable water using renewable energy. The…