LG Chem Ltd. and GS Caltex (both Seoul, South Korea) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to further their collaborative endeavors on a joint project focusing on 3HP (3-Hydroxypropionic acid), an essential raw material for eco-friendly biodegradable plastics. The signing…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has developed an advanced green methanol technology, PureM, augmenting its portfolio of clean ammonia and hydrogen technologies. Utilizing bio or captured carbon-dioxide and green hydrogen as primary feed components, PureM provides a cleaner pathway…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is supplying biomass-balanced tetrahydrofuran (THF BMB) to the ROICA Division of Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo). Asahi Kasei will use BASF’s THF BMB to produce its mass balance grade premium sustainable stretch fiber under the ROICA™ brand.…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that it is the first company to produce metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) on a production scale of several hundred tons per year. MOFs are highly crystalline structures with nanometer-sized pores and a large surface area. This…
thyssenkrupp nucera (Dortmund, Germany) and Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) plan to collaborate on a project to incorporate a 120 megawatt (MW) water electrolyzer into Neste’s Porvoo refinery in Finland. Neste, the leading global producer of sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that its K-GreeN technology has been selected by Madoqua Power2X (Madoqua), a joint venture of Madoqua Renewables, Power2X and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, for Madoqua’s green ammonia project at Sines Industrial Zone in Portugal. Under the terms…
Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) have annoucned a new collaboration to demonstrate the eREACT technology for the production of low-carbon hydrogen (or blue hydrogen). Topsoe’s eREACT technology is a groundbreaking technology platform for production of low-carbon…
Samsung Engineering (Seoul, South Korea) and Svante, Inc. (Burnaby, B.C., Canada) announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate to identify, develop, and deliver commercial carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) projects in Asia and the…
Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded Engineering, Procurement Services and Construction Management (EPsCm) contracts by Galp for an advanced biofuels unit and a green hydrogen unit for its Sines refinery in Portugal. Both projects are part of Galp’s program to…
Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) has begun producing renewable hydrogen at its Petronor industrial center (Biscay, Spain). The 2.5 MW electrolyzer can generate 350 tons per year of renewable hydrogen for industrial use, mainly in the refinery, as a raw material…