Latest News: Sustainability
Trio of Belgian firms to develop “e-methane” project
Mining company Carmeuse (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), ENGIE (Brussels, Belgium) and John Cockerill (Seraing, Belgium) have signed a Joint Development Agreement for an innovative Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) project in the Wallonia region of Belgium. This project will concentrate CO2 from…
Enel Green Power and Maire Tecnimont’s NextChem group sign MoU for a green hydrogen plant in the U.S.
Enel Green Power (Rome, Italy), through its North American renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power North America, Inc. (EGPNA), Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy), through its subsidiary dedicated to the deployment of technologies for the energy transition, NextChem, have signed a…
Enerkem, Shell and Suncor partner on Montreal waste-to-biofuels plant
Enerkem (Montréal, Québec, Canada), with a group of strategic partners that includes major investor Shell, along with Suncor and Proman, and Hydro-Québec supplying green hydrogen and oxygen, and with the support of the Québec and Canadian governments, is proud to…
Siemens Energy and Porsche lead consortium to build climate-neutral synthetic-fuels pilot plant in Chile
Siemens Energy, joined by sports car maker Porsche and a lineup of international companies, is developing and implementing a pilot project in Chile that is expected to yield the world’s first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making synthetic climate-neutral fuels…
Hydro-Québec to construct 90-MW electrolyzer to supply waste-to-biofuels plant
Hydro-Québec has announced the construction of an electrolyzer facility with a capacity of about 90 MW, making it one of the most powerful electrolyzers in the world to produce green hydrogen. The facility will supply green hydrogen and oxygen to…
Danish partnership sets out to build world’s first commercial scale green ammonia plant
Green ammonia, produced from renewable energy, is an excellent fuel and fertilizer that can potentially replace significant volumes of fossil fuels and help accelerate the transition to a world powered by renewable energy. A partnership of industry leaders now announces…
Linde and Snam sign agreement to jointly develop clean hydrogen projects
Linde plc (Guildford, UK) announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Snam S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) to jointly develop clean hydrogen projects and related infrastructure in Europe. Snam, a world leading energy infrastructure company, owns and operates…
Equinor joins Europe’s largest green-hydrogen project
Equinor ASA (Stavanger, Norway)announced that it has joined Europe’s biggest green hydrogen project, the NortH2-project. The project aims to produce green hydrogen using renewable electricity from offshore wind off the coast of Netherlands of about 4 gigawatts by 2030, and…
Braskem and Encina partner to advance circular polypropylene technologies
Braskem S.A. (Philadelphia, Pa.) announced its collaboration with Encina Development Group, a leading provider of solutions to produce renewable chemicals, to develop a long-term relationship enabling the production of circular, recycled polypropylene (PP). Encina's technology is able to produce renewable…
LyondellBasell and Suez jointly acquire plastics-recycling business
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and SUEZ (Paris, France) jointly announced the acquisition of TIVACO, a plastics recycling company located in Blandain, Belgium. The company will become part of Quality Circular Polymers (QCP), the companies' existing 50/50 plastics recycling joint venture.…