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Velocys selects Worley as engineering partner

Sustainable fuels company Velocys plc (Oxford, U.K.; www.velocys.com) announced the appointment of Worley (North Sydney, Australis; www.worley.com) to manage the delivery of its fully integrated technology package. Worley is now the partner in the development of pre-feasibility, feasibility and FEED…

Clariant achieves 100% ‘green electricity’ consumption at Knapsack production site

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) will continue to power its BU Additives production facility in Knapsack, Germany, solely with 100% renewable electricity following the site’s successful pilot switch one year ago. This underlines Clariant’s continued efforts of shifting to the use…

Genomatica produces renewably sourced caprolactam for nylon production

Eighty years after nylon's first commercial production, clean manufacturing technology leader Genomatica (San Diego, Calif.; www.genomatica.com) achieved a new milestone for the material — its production of the world’s first renewably-sourced ton of caprolactam, a key ingredient for nylon-6, made…

HollyFrontier selects Haldor Topsoe technology for renewable diesel unit in New Mexico

HollyFrontier Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.hollyfrontier.com) has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) HydroFlex sustainable renewable-fuel technology to produce renewable diesel from various feedstocks. The large renewable diesel unit will be located at HollyFrontier’s Artesia refinery in New Mexico.  Under the…

Saipem acquires CO2-capture assets in Canada

Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy; www.saipem.com) has acquired a proprietary technology for CO2 capture from the Canadian company CO2 Solutions Inc. (CSI). CSI is a leading innovator in the field of enzyme-enabled carbon capture, actively working to develop and…

Eni and Adnoc announce carbon-capture collaboration

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC; www.adnoc.ae) signed a strategic framework agreement with Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.eni.com) to explore new opportunities for collaboration in carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), where ADNOC is an industry leader, and additional…

Saipem tests a new technology for the disposal and reuse of plastic waste

Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy; www.saipem.com) signed a license agreement with ITEA S.p.A, an Italian company that owns the patent for application of a new plastics recycling technology. Originally designed for applications in the oil & gas sector, the…

Masdar and Cepsa announce JV focused on renewable projects in Spain and Portugal

Renewable energy company Masdar (Abu Dhabi; www.masdar.ae) and Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U. (Cepsa; Madrid, Spain; www.cepsa.com) announced an agreement to establish a joint venture company to develop renewable energy projects in Spain and Portugal.  The 50:50 venture was announced…

Total to develop Qatar’s First Large-Scale Solar Plant

Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) as entered into agreements for the development of the Al Kharsaah Solar PV IPP Project, a 800 megawatt-peak (MWp) solar plant that will be located 80 km west of Doha, Qatar. The project was awarded…

Chevron joins the Hydrogen Council, plans hydrogen-fueling pilot project

Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.; www.chevron.com) announced that it has joined the Hydrogen Council, a global advisory body providing a long-term vision for the role of hydrogen in the energy transition. Hydrogen is used at Chevron refineries to refine crude…