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Manufacturing Mindset for the Energy Industry
Ebook: Integrate your energy asset data The data supporting capital project lifecycles and operational assets contain intelligence that provides performance-enhancing insights. But how can you effectively utilize this data? Many industries have shown that adopting a Digital Lifecycle Excellence…
Evonik launches research project for plasma-enabled CO2 conversion
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has launched the PlasCO2 project together with three partners. The aim is to use carbon dioxide (CO2) as a raw material in the production of C4 chemicals. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is…
Aker Carbon Capture inaugurates world’s first carbon-capture pilot for smelters
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…
TA’ZIZ and Proman to develop the U.A.E.’s first methanol 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 and Sasol sign power purchase agreements with Enel Green Power
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 to expand production capacity for carboxylic acids
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…
Engie and Lanxess sign green-electricity supply deal
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…
TechnipEnergies awarded contract to upgrade sulfur-recovery units Aramco’s Riyadh Refinery
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…
Braskem and Nexus Circular sign supply agreement for circular feedstocks
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…
Técnicas Reunidas awarded contract for $1-billion ammonium complex in Kazakhstan
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…