Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has been awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) scope for Gen2 Energy’s green hydrogen production facility, located in Mosjøen in northern Norway. Gen2 Energy is a Norwegian company dedicated to developing, building, owning and operating an…
Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) and Allied Methanol Pty. Ltd. have signed an agreement to develop an integrated methanol and blue ammonia production plant in Darwin, in the Northern Territory, Australia. The plant configuration will enable carbon emissions to…
Asahi Kasei (Tokyo) has started the construction of an alkaline water electrolysis pilot test plant for hydrogen production at its Kawasaki Works. Construction and operation of the plant is supported by the “Green Innovation Fund1” of Japan’s New Energy and…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd. (DFPCL) to help three DFPCL plants achieve lower emissions and simultaneously increase production capacity. “We have a long-standing relationship with DFPCL and…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has teamed up with French startup Ostium in a joint project designed to enable the mechanical recycling of end-of-life single-use surgical instruments molded in glass-fiber reinforced Ixef polyarylamide (PARA) from Solvay’s portfolio of specialty polymers. The initiative is the first for valuable…
KBR’s (Houston) Infrastructure Solutions business is growing its presence in the Australian renewable hydrogen market. KBR, with Tractebel, have recently been appointed as the Owners Engineer for the YURI Project – a new renewable hydrogen energy facility in the Pilbara,…
Ascend Performance Materials (Houston) has purchased a majority stake in California-based Circular Polymers, a recycler of post-consumer, high-performance polymers including polyamide 6 and 66, polypropylene and polyester (PET). The deal provides Ascend with a consistent supply of high-quality PCR materials…
Bp plc (London) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Mauritania under which it will deliver an innovative programme exploring the potential for large-scale production of green hydrogen in the country. Building on bp’s existing strong relationships…
Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) announced the launch of a new bioplastics pilot plant in the Flanders region in Belgium, which will enable a new bioplastics production technology, ready for implementation at industrial scale. In the decades to come, bio-based…
Babcock & Wilcox (B&W; Akron, Ohio) announced that its B&W Environmental segment has been awarded a contract to study the application of B&W’s SolveBright solvent-based carbon dioxide (CO2) capture solution for CONSOL Energy’s advanced coal and biomass-based 21st Century Power…