Cepsa (Madrid, Spain) and EDP (Energias de Portugal) have signed an agreement to work together on large-scale green hydrogen production in the Bay of Algeciras. Under this partnership, EDP, a leader in renewable energies through its subsidiary EDP Renewables and…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) announced its majority-owned affiliate, Imperial Oil Ltd, will invest about $560 million to move forward with construction of the largest renewable diesel facility in Canada. The project at Imperial’s Strathcona refinery is expected to produce 20,000 barrels…
ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria), together with its joint venture partners Ecohelp and UPT, has opened its first polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling plant in Romania after a construction time of nine months and investment of around 7.5 million euros. The state-of-the-art…
UBE Corp. (Tokyo) plans to expand the polyimide hollow-fiber production facilities for gas separation membranes at its Ube Chemical Factory and the gas separation membrane module production facilities at its Sakai Factory in order to meet rapidly growing demand, particularly…
Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) has awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for H2H Saltend to Linde Engineering, and an operation and maintenance service contract to BOC. Linde Engineering together with BOC, both Linde companies, participated in a design…
Enapter AG (Crespina Lorenzana (PI), Italy), together with its partner YEST, has received an order from South Korea for the delivery of two Anion-exchange membrane (AEM) electrolyzers with a total capacity of 2 megawatts. The systems will be used in…
Grupa Azoty SA (Tarnów, Poland) has launched a new facility for the production of concentrated nitric acid with a design output of 40,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr), doubling its existing capacity. This is a second production line for above 98 per cent…
Nippon Steel Corp., Mitsubishi Corp. and ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly study carbon capture and storage (CCS) and the establishment of potential CCS value chains in the Asia Pacific regions. Based on…
Velocys plc (Harwell, U.K.) announced the execution of a master relationship agreement (MRA) with Bechtel (Reston, Va.) The MRA sets out a route map for the parties to collaborate with each other with the objective of developing an EPC execution…
Cabot Corp. (Boston, Ma.) announced that it plans to add conductive carbon additives (CCA) capacity in the U.S. to enhance its leadership position in the market and support the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). Cabot plans to add conductive carbons…