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ABB to automate Lhyfe’s first green hydrogen facility

Lhyfe, a French producer and supplier of green hydrogen, has chosen ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) to implement an automation solution at its first green hydrogen production site. ABB supports a wide range of industries in their digital transformation and will supply…

Total is exploring quantum algorithms to improve CO2 capture

Total S.A. (Paris, France) is stepping up its research into Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technologies by signing a multi-year partnership with U.K. start-up Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC). This partnership aims to develop new quantum algorithms to improve materials…

Historic investment decision for transport and storage of CO2

Equinor, Shell and Total S.A. (Paris, France) have decided to invest in the Northern Lights project in Norway's first exploitation license for CO2 storage on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Plans for development and operation have been handed over to the…

Air Products to Invest $2 Billion for Coal-to-Methanol Project in Indonesia

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) has signed a definitive agreement for a long-term on-site contract for a world-scale coal-to-methanol production facility in Bengalon, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Under the long-term on-site contract, PT. Bakrie Capital Indonesia, part of the Bakrie Group,…

New project focuses on comprehensive hydrogen network in Poland

Poland's national oil and gas company Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo (PGNiG; Warsaw, Poland) has started working on projects for the use of hydrogen in the energy and automotive sectors. This initiative explores the possibility of storing and transporting hydrogen…

KBR selected by JX Nippon for carbon-capture feasibility study

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced  that it has been awarded a Master Service Agreement (MSA) and Feasibility Study by JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) Building on KBR’s strong and successful portfolio in this area, the study will…

Cargill and P&G sign license to commercialize bio-based acrylic acid technology

Procter & Gamble (P&G; Cincinnati, Ohio) has granted Cargill, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn.) an exclusive license that allows Cargill to further develop and commercialize a technology developed by P&G that converts lactic acid into bio-based acrylic acid, so that it can…

Evonik and Beiersdorf partner on CO2-based care products

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) and personal-care product manufacturer Beiersdorf AG (Hamburg, Germany) have reached an agreement on a research partnership. Its aim is to develop sustainable raw materials for care products, using carbon dioxide (CO2) as the starting material.…

NOVA Chemicals and Enerkem to collaborate on waste-to-ethylene technology

NOVA Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) and Enerkem Inc. (Montréal, Québec, Canada) have entered into a joint development agreement to explore turning non-recyclable and non-compostable municipal waste into ethylene, a basic building block of plastics. Working together, the companies will…

BP announces feasibility study for renewable-hydrogen production in Western Australia

BP plc (London, U.K.) has announced that bp Australia is taking part in a feasibility study related to an export-scale renewable hydrogen production facility in Western Australia.   The extensive study will help BP and the energy sector better understand the possibilities of using hydrogen…