Aker Carbon Capture AS (Lysaker, Norway) has announced that the world's first carbon capture pilot for smelters has been officially inaugurated. The Mobile Test Unit (MTU), delivered by Aker Carbon Capture, is now connected to Elkem ASA’s (Oslo, Norway) plant…
Abu Dhabi Chemicals Derivatives Co. RSC Ltd (TA’ZIZ) and PROMAN AG (Wollerau, Switzerland), one of the world’s leading producers of methanol, have signed a shareholders’ agreement to develop the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) first world-scale methanol production facility at the…
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) and Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) have signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Enel Green Power (Rome, Italy) for the long-term supply of a total capacity of 220 MW of renewable power to Sasol’s Secunda…
OQ Chemicals GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany) has announced further plans to expand its production capacity for carboxylic acids. The company has invested in an optimization and debottlenecking project for precursors at its plants in Germany. Structural work has already…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) and energy company Engie S.A. (La Défense, Courbevoie, France) have concluded power full supply agreements for a total of 1,400 GWh for sites in Germany and Belgium. More than half will be covered by corporate power purchase…
Technip Energies (Paris) – as part of its long-term agreement with Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) – has been awarded a contract to upgrade sulfur recovery facilities at Aramco’s Riyadh Refinery. This contract covers the implementation of three new tail gas…
Nexus Circular LLC (Atlanta, Ga.)and Braskem S.A. (São Paulo, Brazil) announced that they have signed a 10-year definitive commercial agreement for the supply of circular feedstocks from a new advanced recycling facility. Braskem completed a strategic investment in Nexus Circular…
KAZAZOT, the leading company in the fertilizer industry in Kazakhstan, has selected Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) as the contractor to develop a new ammonium, urea, nitric acid and ammonium nitrate complex. With a total investment of approximately $1 billion, the…
Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.) will provide automation technologies, software and analytics for the Ras Laffan Petrochemical Complex in Qatar as part of a consortium with Viasat Energy Services, a division of global communications company. The $6 billion integrated polymers project,…
Endress+Hauser Mexico has invested roughly €10 million in a new building. The recently occupied sales and service center is located in Naucalpan in the Mexico City metropolitan area. With 4,100 m2 of usable space, the center includes modern office facilities,…