Siemens Energy, joined by sports car maker Porsche and a lineup of international companies, is developing and implementing a pilot project in Chile that is expected to yield the world’s first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making synthetic climate-neutral fuels…
ArcelorMittal Europe S.A. (Luxembourg) announced that the sale of ArcelorMittal USA to Cleveland-Cliffs for a combination of cash and stock has completed. Under the terms of the sale, ArcelorMittal has received $505 million cash, 78 million shares of Cleveland-Cliffs common stock…
Petrofac Ltd. (St. Helier, U.K.) has announced that The Clean Fuels Project for Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) has reached a major milestone with the with the safe and successful startup of the Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) 111 at Mina…
Aramco and Baker Hughes (Houston) have announced the formation of Novel, a 50/50 Joint Venture (JV) to develop and commercialize a broad range of non-metallic products for multiple applications in the energy sector. A ceremony was held at the project…
Hydro-Québec has announced the construction of an electrolyzer facility with a capacity of about 90 MW, making it one of the most powerful electrolyzers in the world to produce green hydrogen. The facility will supply green hydrogen and oxygen to…
Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, and Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) have signed a preliminary agreement of an on-site oxygen supply to Metsä Fibre’s new bioproduct mill in Kemi. The preliminary agreement includes construction of an on-site oxygen plant based…
AGC Biologics, a U.S.-based CDMO subsidiary of AGC Inc. (Tokyo, Japan), announced that it will increase the production capacity of its Copenhagen facility. AGC Biologics will construct a new building on land adjacent to its current Copenhagen site, adding production…
Linde plc (Guildford, UK) announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Snam S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) to jointly develop clean hydrogen projects and related infrastructure in Europe. Snam, a world leading energy infrastructure company, owns and operates…
Equinor ASA (Stavanger, Norway)announced that it has joined Europe’s biggest green hydrogen project, the NortH2-project. The project aims to produce green hydrogen using renewable electricity from offshore wind off the coast of Netherlands of about 4 gigawatts by 2030, and…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced the successful startup of Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical Co., Ltd.'s (Sinochem Quanzhou) 1,000,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) ethylene plant in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. The ethylene plant is part of Sinochem Quanzhou's grassroots integrated refining and…