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Sasol and ArcelorMittal join forces to develop carbon-capture technology

Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) and ArcelorMittal South Africa have announced a partnership to develop carbon capture technology to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals, and green steel production through green hydrogen and derivatives. Under a joint development agreement (JDA), they…

GS Caltex selects KBR’s recycling technology for circular plastics project

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has won a contract from GS Caltex (Seoul, South Korea)for its planned plastics circularity project in South Korea. Based on KBR and Mura's Hydro-PRT process, the 50,000-ton/yr unit will convert waste plastics into raw…

BP to acquire Houston-based RNG producer Archaea Energy

Bp plc  (London) announced that it has agreed to acquire Archaea Energy Inc. (Houston), a leading producer of renewable natural gas (RNG) in the US. The agreed acquisition, which is subject to regulatory and Archaea shareholder approval, will be for…

ArcelorMittal breaks ground on transformational low-carbon steelmaking project in Canada

ArcelorMittal Corp. (Luxembourg) has broken ground on its CAD$1.8 billion investment decarbonization project at the ArcelorMittal Dofasco plant in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The project, a partnership between ArcelorMittal and the governments of Canada and Ontario, which was first announced in…

Technip Energies and Shell Catalysts & Technologies strengthen carbon-capture alliance

Technip Energies (Paris) and Shell Catalysts & Technologies are building on their successful track record of collaboration by strengthening their strategic alliance, which aims to drive cost-effective, large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects by providing a combination of state-of-the-art…

Cummins nears start of construction for electrolyzer gigafactory in Spain

Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) will soon begin building its new gigawatt electrolyzer manufacturing plant in Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, reaffirming the company’s commitment to expanding the green hydrogen economy in Europe and globally. Last year, Cummins announced it had selected…

Eni and Enel Green Power to develop two green hydrogen projects in Italy

Two projects by Italian multinational corporations Enel Green Power (Rome, Italy) and Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) to develop green hydrogen will receive public funding approved by the European Commission under IPCEI Hy2Use. Jointly prepared and notified by 13 EU Member…

Indorama Ventures opens the largest PET recycling plant in the Philippines

Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand) announced the official opening of its PETValue bottle-to-bottle recycling plant in the Philippines, in partnership with Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines—the bottling arm of Coca-Cola in the country. The plant is IVL’s latest recycled PET (polyethylene…

CF Industries and ExxonMobil announce landmark carbon-capture partnership

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.), has entered into the largest-of-its-kind commercial agreement with ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) to capture and permanently store up to 2 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually from its manufacturing complex in Louisiana. Start-up for…

SGP BioEnergy adds green-hydrogen production to Panama biorefinery project

SGP BioEnergy announced the addition of green hydrogen production to the largest planned advanced biorefinery in the world, allowing the facility to operate with net-zero emissions. In May, SGP BioEnergy announced the plan for Biorefineria Ciudad Dorada (Golden City Biorefinery),…