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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kiewit providing FEED services for Heidelberg Materials’ CCUS project in Canada

Heidelberg Materials North America (Irving, Tex.) announced the latest step in its two-stage competitive procurement process as it works to select the carbon capture technology and contractor for providing the CO2 separation solution for its Edmonton, Alberta, Carbon Capture, Utilization,…

Lummus and Braskem to jointly study electrified cracking project

Lummus Technology (Houston) and Braskem S.A. (São Paulo, Brazil) announced that the companies will carry out joint studies related to the industrial demonstration of Lummus' SRT-e electric cracking heater to decarbonize one of Braskem's sites in Brazil. The Joint Study…

MOL Group inaugurates green-hydrogen plant in Hungary

MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary) has inaugurated a 10-megawatt capacity green hydrogen plant in Százhalombatta, which is the largest in Central and Eastern Europe. The €22-million investment will reduce the Danube Refinery's carbon dioxide emissions by 25 000 tons. MOL will…

Cepsa launches breakthrough traceability platform for low-carbon chemicals

Cepsa Química (Madrid, Spain) announced the first global methodology to ensure traceability in the production of low-carbon linear alkylbenzene (LAB), produced from renewable energies, validated by AENOR (the Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification). The plant that Cepsa Química has…

Brightmark and Chevron JV opens renewable natural gas facility in Arizona

Brightmark RNG Holdings LLC (San Francisco, Calif.) announces the opening of its Eloy Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) center in Eloy, Ariz., which will produce RNG from dairy manure using anaerobic digestion technology. The project brings this innovative renewable fuel technology…

Repsol enters biomethane production with acquisition of 40% stake in Genia Bioenergy

Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) is entering the biomethane market with an agreement to take a 40% shareholding in Genia Bioenergy. This alliance allows Repsol to add significant human and technical capabilities to position itself early in this growing sector. Biomethane…

Johnson Matthey and bp technology chosen for the world’s largest Fischer Tropsch SAF production plant

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London), a global leader in sustainable technologies, today announced that DG Fuels has selected its award-winning Fischer Tropsch (FT) CANS technology – co-developed with bp – for DG Fuels' first sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in…

Air Liquide to construct two new biomethane plants in the U.S.

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) continues to expand its capacities in biomethane, also known as Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) in the U.S., with the construction of two new production units. These units, located in Center Township, Pennsylvania, and Holland Township, Michigan,…

Axpo and Enego studying green-hydrogen plant in Sicily

Axpo has signed a cooperation agreement with French energy investor ENEGO to study the feasibility of a 100 MW green hydrogen plant in Sicily, it was announced today. The project shall be located in the Priolo-Augusta industrial complex on the…

Collaborative project for automotive recycling launched in Japan

Denso Corp. (Tokyo) and other partners have been chosen by an industry-government-academia collaborative project aiming to expand the recycle content for automobile in the fiscal year 2023 supported by Ministry of the Environment, Japan. The project, titled "Demonstration of Manufacturing-and-Recycling…