Rio Tinto (London) and Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo) will build a first-of-a-kind hydrogen plant in Gladstone, Australia, as part of a A$111.1 million program aimed at lowering carbon emissions from the alumina refining process. The Yarwun Hydrogen Calcination Pilot Demonstration Program…
Exxon Mobil Corp. (Houston) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Denbury Inc. (Plano, Tex.), an experienced developer of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCS) solutions and enhanced oil recovery. The acquisition is an all-stock transaction valued…
3M (St. Paul, Minn.) says that its Brookings, S.D., plant is poised to expand, with 3M investing up to $468 million over the next three years. “3M is proud to have been a part of the growing community of Brookings…
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) has announced that it is supplying electrolyzers for new green-hydrogen projects in Australia and Europe. Firstly, Plug Power has been selected to supply two 5-megawatt (MW) proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer systems for green hydrogen…
Technip Energies (Paris) and LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Skokie, Ill.) signed a Joint Collaboration Agreement to create a new pathway to sustainable ethylene utilizing their combined technologies. Together LanzaTech’s carbon capture and utilization technology with Technip Energies’ Hummingbird® technology transform waste…
Stamicarbon BV (Sittard, the Netherlands), nitrogen technology licensor of MAIRE Group, continues to consolidate its presence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following last year's award of a license and process design package (PDP) contracts to design a 4000 MTPD melt and granulation…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has been awarded a major award by Euro Manganese to deliver a unique mineral project critical to the energy transition. This cost-reimbursable contract will be delivered by Wood’s Projects business unit and is in line with…
H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH, a subsidiary of Masan High-Tech Materials Group, is planning to establish a recycling center for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in the Harz region together with partners. To this end, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed yesterday in…
Cepsa (Madrid, Spain) strengthens its chemical business with the construction in Huelva of the first production plant of isopropyl alcohol, or isopropanol, from renewable or circular materials, which will make it the most competitive, innovative, and environmentally friendly facility of…
LyondellBasell Industries (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that PetroChina Guangxi Petrochemical Company will license the LyondellBasell polyethylene technology at their facility located in Qinzhou City, Guangxi, P.R. of China. The newly licensed technology will comprise of the LyondellBasell leading high-pressure Lupotech…