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Cadiz and RIC Energy plan to build California’s largest green-hydrogen facility

Water solutions company Cadiz, Inc. (Los Angeles, Calif.) and renewable energy developer RIC Energy (Madrid, Spain) have entered into an agreement to build California’s largest green-hydrogen facility at Cadiz Ranch in the Mojave Desert. Under the agreement, Cadiz will supply…

Sembcorp and Persero pursuing Southeast Asia’s largest green-hydrogen project in Sumatra

Sembcorp Industries (Singapore) through its wholly owned subsidiary, Sembcorp Utilities Pte. Ltd., and PT PLN Energi Primer Indonesia (PT PLN EPI), a sub-holding company of PT PLN (Persero), have entered into a joint development agreement (JDA) for a green hydrogen…

TotalEnergies and Vanguard Renewables begin construction of RNG project in Virginia

TotalEnergies (Paris) announced that it has broken ground on the Oakmulgee Dairy Farm renewable natural gas (RNG) project in Amelia Court House, Virginia, with its joint venture partner Vanguard Renewables, a portfolio company of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a part…

Johnson Matthey and Noya to scale up production of novel carbon-capture sorbent

Johnson Matthey plc (London) and Noya (Oakland, Calif.) have established a partnership to manufacture Noya’s proprietary sorbent, the filter at the heart of its cutting-edge direct air capture (DAC) approach. The Noya system provides clean water and grid services alongside…

Bridgestone receives DOE grant to develop ethanol-to-butadiene technology

Bridgestone Americas (Nashville, Tenn.) announced it received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office. Bridgestone will design, build and operate a pilot plant that will advance an innovative, potentially more sustainable and cost-effective…

Neste and Braskem enter agreement for renewable and recycled feedstocks

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) and Braskem S.A. (São Paulo, Brazil) have reached an agreement for the supply of renewable and recycled feedstocks for polymers and chemicals production. Braskem products based on these feedstocks are expected to be available on the…

Wood leads industry project to accelerate CCUS with guidelines for CO2 specifications

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) is leading a Joint Industry Partnership (JIP) to create industry guidelines for CO2 specifications to accelerate sustainable Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) projects. The guidelines are the first of their kind to focus on the…

Axens, IFPEN and JEPLAN begin commercial licensing of PET chemical-recycling process

Following the announcement made at the inauguration of a semi-industrial demonstration unit at Kitakyushu in Japan in October 2023, Axens, IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN; both Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Jeplan, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan), partners in the project, are glad to announce…

LyondellBasell completes acquisition of solvent-based recycling company APK

LyondellBasell (LYB; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) yesterday announced it became full owner of APK AG (Merseberg, Germany; www.apk.group). APK will be fully integrated and continue as part of LYB, a sustainability leader in the chemical industry. It is LYB’s ambition…

Jacobs to support Capital Hydrogen on East London hydrogen pipeline project

Jacobs (Dallas, Tex.) was selected by Cadent Gas on behalf of Capital Hydrogen to deliver the Pre-Front End Engineering Design (Pre-FEED) phase of the East London Hydrogen Pipeline (ELHP) project. The pipeline will span 56 miles (90 kilometers) through East…