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Cepsa launches breakthrough traceability platform for low-carbon chemicals

Cepsa Química (Madrid, Spain) announced the first global methodology to ensure traceability in the production of low-carbon linear alkylbenzene (LAB), produced from renewable energies, validated by AENOR (the Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification). The plant that Cepsa Química has…

KBR to license GeoLith direct lithium extraction technology

 KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has signed an alliance agreement with GeoLith SAS to offer its advanced Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technology, Li-Capt. This technology enables zero-emission lithium extraction from untapped sources like geothermal and oil well brines. Under the…

Brightmark and Chevron JV opens renewable natural gas facility in Arizona

Brightmark RNG Holdings LLC (San Francisco, Calif.) announces the opening of its Eloy Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) center in Eloy, Ariz., which will produce RNG from dairy manure using anaerobic digestion technology. The project brings this innovative renewable fuel technology…

Repsol enters biomethane production with acquisition of 40% stake in Genia Bioenergy

Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) is entering the biomethane market with an agreement to take a 40% shareholding in Genia Bioenergy. This alliance allows Repsol to add significant human and technical capabilities to position itself early in this growing sector. Biomethane…

Johnson Matthey and bp technology chosen for the world’s largest Fischer Tropsch SAF production plant

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London), a global leader in sustainable technologies, today announced that DG Fuels has selected its award-winning Fischer Tropsch (FT) CANS technology – co-developed with bp – for DG Fuels' first sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in…

Air Liquide to construct two new biomethane plants in the U.S.

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) continues to expand its capacities in biomethane, also known as Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) in the U.S., with the construction of two new production units. These units, located in Center Township, Pennsylvania, and Holland Township, Michigan,…

Axpo and Enego studying green-hydrogen plant in Sicily

Axpo has signed a cooperation agreement with French energy investor ENEGO to study the feasibility of a 100 MW green hydrogen plant in Sicily, it was announced today. The project shall be located in the Priolo-Augusta industrial complex on the…

Zeon and Visolis collaborating on commercialization of bio-isoprene monomers

Zeon Corp. (Tokyo) signed a memorandum of understanding with California-based Visolis, Inc. to advance the commercialization of products, including bio-isoprene monomers and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Zeon had announced its investment in Visolis through its venture capital arm Zeon Ventures…

Orion breaks ground on battery-materials plant in Texas

Orion S.A. (Spring, Tex.) broke ground on a plant in Texas that will be the only facility in the U.S. producing acetylene-based conductive additives for lithium-ion batteries and other applications vital for the global shift to electrification. The site in…

Accelera to provide electrolyzers for Chevron’s solar-to-hydrogen project

Accelera by Cummins, the zero-emissions business segment of Cummins Inc., will supply Chevron New Energies with a 5-megawatt (MW) electrolyzer system for the production of low-carbon intensity (LCI) electrolytic hydrogen in Lost Hills, Calif. – a step toward scaling hydrogen…