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Total and IOCL form JV focused on bitumen derivatives

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL), India’s largest refiner and marketer of petroleum products, and Total SE (Paris) announced the formation of a 50:50 Joint Venture (JV) company that will manufacture and market high-quality bitumen derivatives and specialty products for the…

Baker Hughes sells specialty polymers business to SK Capital

Funds advised by SK Capital Partners, LP, a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the specialty polymers business from Baker Hughes (Houston).  The specialty polymers…

Total sells Lindsey refinery to the Prax Group

Total SE (Paris, France) has signed an agreement to sell the Lindsey refinery and its associated logistic assets, as well as all of the related rights and obligations, to the Prax Group. Located in Immingham (Lincolnshire) in England, the Lindsey…

Linde and CNOOC sign MoU related to China’s hydrogen economy

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China National Offshore Oil Corporation's (CNOOC) subsidiary, CNOOC Energy Technology & Services, to jointly develop the hydrogen energy industry in China. Together, both companies will…

Solvay installs solar farm at Dutch peroxides plant

Solvay S.A. (Brussels. Belgium) is constructing hectares of solar panels at its site in Linne Herten, the Netherlands, to generate its own green energy. Fully operational, Linne Herten’s 6,500 MWh solar farm provides 40% of the plant’s electricity needs and…

Honeywell UOP technology selected to reduce chloride emissions at Malaysian refinery

Honeywell announced today that Malaysia-based Hengyuan Refining Company Bhd. (HRC) has started Honeywell UOP’s modular Chlorsorb technology as part of a revamp of its existing UOP CCR Platforming unit to help it comply with new clean-air regulations. Located in HRC’s…

Air Liquide to invest €125 million in advanced oxygen-production plant

Air Liquide (Paris, France) announced an investment of €125 million to build the first world-scale Air Separation Unit (ASU) for oxygen production with an energy storage system that helps facilitate more renewable energy on the electricity grid due to its…

ATCO to build Alberta’s first hydrogen-blending project

Canadian Utilities, an ATCO company, announced it has been awarded $2.8 million in funding from Emission Reductions Alberta's (ERA) Natural Gas Challenge to advance a first-of-its-kind hydrogen blending project in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta. Once complete, the project will be Canada's…

EcoVadis and Oxiteno partner to grow supply-chain sustainability in Latin America

EcoVadis, provider of business sustainability ratings, has announced its partnership with Oxiteno (Sao Paulo, Brazil), a leader in the production of surfactants and specialty chemicals in Latin America. The two companies will collaborate to improve the sustainability performance of Oxiteno…

Chevron Lummus Global announces startup of euglena biofuels plant in Yokohama

Chevron Lummus Global (CLG), a joint venture between Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and Lummus Technology,  and Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) are pleased to announce the successful startup of euglena Co., Ltd.'s integrated Biofuels ISOCONVERSION unit in Yokohama, Japan.  The 5 barrel…