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Chevron upgrades Pasadena refinery to increase capacity and flexibility
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. (CUSA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Chevron Corp. (Houston), has completed a retrofit of its refinery in Pasadena, Texas, which is expected to increase product flexibility and expand the processing capacity of lighter crudes by nearly 15%…
Dow to sell 40% stake in U.S. Gulf Coast infrastructure assets
Dow (Midland, Mich.) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell a 40% equity stake in select U.S. Gulf Coast infrastructure assets to a fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management, a leading global infrastructure and energy asset…
PCC Group to build chlor-alkali facility at Chemours titanium dioxide plant in Mississippi
The Chemours Company (Wilmington, Del.) announced that the PCC Group SE (Duisburg, Germany) plans to build and operate a chlor-alkali facility on the grounds of Chemours’ titanium dioxide (TiO2) plant in DeLisle, Mississippi, and that PCC and Chemours have entered…
Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials advances project to increase propellant production
Orbia Advance Corporation S.A.B. de C.V.’s Fluor & Energy Materials business announced its readiness to advance construction of a larger scale medical propellant purification plant, marking a critical milestone in the metered-dose inhaler (MDI) industry's transition to low-global-warming-potential (GWP) inhalers.…
Rio Tinto signs new partnership agreement to study low-carbon aluminum project in Finland
Rio Tinto plc (London) has entered into a partnership agreement with the Swedish investment company Vargas, Mitsubishi Corporation and other international and local industry partners to study a low carbon aluminum greenfield opportunity in Finland. As the strategic industrial partner,…
BASF starts up its expanded ammonium chloride plant in Ludwigshafen
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has expanded the production of ammonium chloride at its Ludwigshafen site, increasing capacity by 50% and improving product quality. Following the successful start-up of the plant, a more efficient production process is now being used to…
Technip Energies and GE Vernova awarded a major contract for the Net Zero Teesside Power project
Technip Energies (Paris), leader of a consortium with GE Vernova (Cambridge, Ma.) and construction partner Balfour Beatty (London) – with the support of technology partner Shell Catalysts & Technologies – received Notice to Proceed by NZT Power Limited to execute…
Sulzer’s technology selected by Emirates Biotech for world’s largest PLA plant
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) announced that its technology has been selected by Emirates Biotech for its upcoming Polylactic Acid (PLA) production plant in the United Arab Emirates. The facility will be constructed in two phases, each with an annual capacity…
Liquid Wind and Samsung E&A to collaborate on development of global e-fuel plants
Liquid Wind AB (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Samsung E&A (Seoul, South Korea) have entered into a collaboration agreement to accelerate the development of eFuel facilities outside of Europe, in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The partnership aims to combine each…
SGH2 Eergy and ABB expand partnership to accelerate AI solutions in green hydrogen production
SGH2 Energy (Washington, D.C.) announced the expansion of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ABB, Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) to drive future integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital solutions to enable more sustainable and resource-efficient operations. SGH2 Energy aims to…