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Cepsa details recycled wastewater scheme for green-hydrogen hub

Cepsa  (Madrid, Spain) will produce green hydrogen at its San Roque Energy Park (Cádiz) by reusing recycled water from a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). To this end, the company has reached an agreement with the public company Aguas y Servicios…

Harvest Midstream to acquire Belle Chasse terminal facility in Louisiana from Phillips 66

Harvest Midstream Co.(Houston) announced an agreement with Phillips 66, Inc. (Houston) to purchase the Belle Chasse Terminal, formerly the Alliance Refinery located in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The acquisition is expected to close in the First Quarter of 2023. In November…

LanzaTech’s SAF facility receives £25 million grant from U.K. Department for Transport Advanced Fuels Fund

Plans for the world’s first commercial-scale factory to transform waste gases into sustainable jet fuel have moved a step closer today. LanzaTech UK Ltd., a subsidiary of LanzaTech NZ (Skokie, Ill.) , has announced that its DRAGON facility project has…

Merck completes acquisition of Mecaro’s chemicals business

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, announced the closing of the transaction to acquire M Chemicals Inc., the company recently incorporated by Mecaro Co. Ltd. to operate its chemical business. Combining these two businesses is expected…

SABIC, OQ and KPI announce plans to establish a world-scale petrochemical complex in Duqm

SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), OQ and Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) have signed a Project Development Agreement of a jointly owned petrochemical complex in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm (SEZAD), the Sultanate of Oman. The three companies aim to establish…

Air Liquide completes hydrogen pipeline to thyssenkrupp Steel in Duisburg

As part of the H2Stahl real laboratory sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK), the industrial gases company Air Liquide (Paris) has now completed a pipeline to thyssenkrupp Steel in Duisburg. The approximately four-kilometer-long…

Showa Denko and KBR to license vinyl acetate monomer technology

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo) has decided to license its technology to produce vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) to Asian Paints Limited, a leading paint and décor company in India , under a formal alliance agreement between SDK and KBR, Inc.…

Sumitomo Chemical completes construction of pilot facility for acrylic-resin recycling

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) has constructed a new pilot facility for chemical recycling of acrylic resin (polymethyl methacrylate or PMMA) at its Ehime Works in Niihama City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Samples of chemically recycled methyl methacrylate or MMA monomer…

ArcelorMittal acquires another scrap-metal recycler in Europe

ArcelorMittal announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Polish scrap metal recycling business, Zakład Przerobu Złomu (Złomex). Transaction closing, which is subject to customary regulatory approvals is expected during the first half of 2023. Zlomex operates scrap yards in…

Metso Outotec providing processing technologies for Albemarle LiOH plant in Western Australia

Albemarle Lithium Pty Ltd has awarded Metso Outotec Oy (Helsinki, Finland) an order for two pyro processing and comminution lines for their Kemerton lithium hydroxide processing plant in Western Australia. Previously, Metso Outotec has delivered two similar pyro process lines…