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Vision Energy and Linde Engineering to collaborate on Green Energy Terminal in the Netherlands

Vision Energy Corp. (Jersey City, N.J.) is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Linde Engineering for expanding scope and further cooperation in regards to Vision Energy’s pioneering Green Energy Terminal in North Sea Port…

Metso Outotec invests in pilot plant for a hydrogen-based direct reduction process

Metso Outotec (Helsinki, Finland) will convert its existing 700 mm Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) pilot plant in Frankfurt, Germany, for hydrogen-based direct reduction of fine ore, applying the proven Planet Positive Circored technology. The pilot plant can also be used…

CropEnergies to build renewable ethyl acetate plant in Germany

CropEnergies AG (Mannheim, Germany) will build a plant for the production of renewable ethyl acetate from sustainable ethanol. Foreseen location is the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park, Elsteraue, Germany. The supervisory board of CropEnergies has given the green light to…

Air Products and AES to build first mega-scale green hydrogen facility in Texas

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and The AES Corp. (Arlington, Va.) announced plans to invest approximately $4 billion to build, own and operate a green hydrogen production facility in Wilbarger County, Texas. This mega-scale renewable power to hydrogen project includes…

Bechtel, Siemens and Topsoe to provide FEED services for HIF Matagorda eFuels Facility

E-fuels company HIF Global (Houston) announced that its subsidiary HIF USA LLC  has engaged Bechtel Energy, Siemens Energy, and Topsoe to conduct the front-end engineering and design (FEED) of a facility to be constructed in Matagorda County, Texas to produce…

Snam and Baker Hughes complete hydrogen-powered turbine demonstration in Italy

Snam (Milan, Italy) and Baker Hughes (Houston) successfully completed a series of tests aimed at experimenting with the use of hydrogen as a fuel to power gas turbines, at one of its natural gas compression stations in Istrana, Italy. The…

ArcelorMittal inaugurates flagship carbon capture and utilization project in Belgium

ArcelorMittal has  successfully inaugurated its flagship carbon capture and utilization (CCU) project in Ghent, Belgium. The €200-million ‘Steelanol’ project is a first of its kind for the European steel industry. Utilising cutting edge carbon recycling technology developed by  project partner…

Bp to explore potential green-hydrogen production project in Egypt

Bp plc (London) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Egypt under which it will explore the potential for establishing a new green hydrogen production facility in the country. The MoU was signed by bp, Egypt’s New…

Global Bioenergies starts up commercial production unit for bio-isobutene

Global Bioenergies (Evry, France) announced that its first commercial production unit is now fully operational. All units (biological isobutene production, purification, condensation and packaging) have been validated and are now in operation. Frédéric Ollivier, Global Bioenergies’ Chief Technical Officer, said:…

ArcelorMittal acquires scrap-metal recycling business in the Netherlands

ArcelorMittal announced that it has acquired Riwald Recycling, a state-of-the-art ferrous scrap metal recycling business based in the Netherlands. Transaction signing occurred with closing, which is subject to customary regulatory approvals, expected by the end of January 2023. Riwald Recycling…