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BP makes final investment decision for green hydrogen project at Lingen refinery

Bp plc (London) has made the final investment decision (FID) for the “Lingen Green Hydrogen” project. The company wants to achieve a significant milestone on the path to the development of green hydrogen on an industrial scale in Germany. Supported…

Vitol acquires majority stake in plastics recycling firm WPU

Vitol B.V. (Geneva, Switzerland) has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Waste Plastic Upcycling A/S (WPU). On completion, which is subject to certain conditions precedent, Vitol will own 90.36% of the share capital of WPU.…

Standard Lithium and Equinor begin operation of pilot direct lithium extraction unit in Arkansas

SWA Lithium, the Joint Venture (JV) between Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) and Equinor ASA (Stavanger, Norway), which is developing the South West Arkansas Project (SWA), is pleased to announce that, in partnership with Koch Technology Solutions (KTS), it has…

BASF, Endress+Hauser and research partners collaborate to optimize mechanical recycling of plastics

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has teamed up with Endress+Hauser Ltd. (Reinach, Switzerland) and TechnoCompound (Bad Sobernheim, Germany), as well as the Universities of Bayreuth and Jena to study how the mechanical recycling of plastics can be improved. With funding from…

Worley awarded EPC contract for ExxonMobil’s Baytown low-carbon H2 facility

Worley Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia) will provide reimbursable Engineering, Procurement and Construction services (EPC) to ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) for the Enabling Works, Infrastructure and Interconnects scope of ExxonMobil’s planned low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia facility. The facility is adjacent to…

Shell C&T carbon capture system selected for Net Zero Teeside Power project

Shell Catalysts & Technologies (Houston, Tex.; www.shell.com) is pleased to announce that the CANSOLV CO2 Capture System will play a key role in Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power), after the landmark U.K. project took its final investment decision (FID)…

KBR ammonia technology selected for Kazakhstan’s first world-scale fertilizer complex

KBR Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) announced today that its ammonia technology has been selected by KazAzot for Kazakhstan's first world-scale fertilizer complex. KBR will provide a technology license, proprietary engineering design, equipment, and catalyst solutions for KazAzot's 2,000 metric tons per…

Electric smelting furnace pilot plant for iron making to be located in Western Australia

Australia’s two largest iron-ore miners and its biggest steelmaker have selected the Kwinana Industrial Area, south of Perth, as the location to develop Australia’s largest ironmaking electric smelting furnace (ESF) pilot plant. The groundbreaking project combines the expertise of BlueScope…

Power2X selects Honeywell for methanol-to-jet project in Rotterdam

Power2X (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.power2x.com) has announced a strategic collaboration with Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) to implement Honeywell UOP’s eFiningTM methanol-to-jet processing technology in Power2X’s eFuels Rotterdam project -- a large-scale production and storage hub for sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) and synthetic,…

Westlake invests in Universal Matter Inc.

Westlake Innovations, Inc., a subsidiary of Westlake Corporation (Houston, Tex.; www.westlake.com), today announced the company has invested in Universal Matter Inc. (Burlington, Ont.; www.universalmatter.com), a company seeking to become the leading supplier of high-quality and sustainable graphene and advanced materials…