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Heliogen and Bloom Energy demonstrate solar-powered hydrogen generation

Heliogen, Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.) and Bloom Energy Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) announced the generation of green hydrogen by integrating the companies’ technologies – Heliogen’s concentrated solar energy system and the Bloom Electrolyzer. The successful demonstration in Lancaster, California produced hydrogen…

Technip Energies and Petronas collaborate to commercialize carbon capture technologies

Technip Energies (Paris) and PETRONAS (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) have signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) establishing a strategic collaboration framework for the further development and commercialization of carbon capture technologies. These include PETRONAS’ Rotating Pack Bed assisted cryogenic CO2 recovery…

BP and Clean Energy Fuels expand RNG joint venture

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Newport Beach, Calif.) and bp plc (London) announced that their renewable natural gas (RNG) joint venture will build on previously announced plans to finance and develop new projects at dairy farms, starting in the Midwest.   Located…

Orlen announces startup of Europe’s largest plant producing ‘green’ propylene glocol

ORLEN Południe, an ORLEN Group company, has brought onstream Poland’s first and Europe’s largest green propylene glycol production unit at its biorefinery in Trzebinia. The unit has a capacity of 30,000 tons per year, enough to cover as much as…

RWE and Shell sign MOU for green hydrogen, decarbonization projects

Shell New Energies NL BV (Shell) and RWE AG (Essen, Germany) intend to jointly advance projects for the production, use and distribution of green hydrogen as well as further options to decarbonize RWE gas and biomass-fired power plants in northwest…

Phillips 66 to convert Alliance Refinery in Louisiana into a terminal facility

Phillips 66 (Houston) announced plans to convert its Alliance Refinery in Belle Chasse, La., to a terminal facility. The conversion is expected to take place in 2022. “We made this decision after exploring several options and considering the investment needed…

Adnoc and Borealis announce $6.2-billion investment to expand Borouge JV

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) have signed an investment agreement worth $6.2 billion to expand their Borouge joint venture (JV) by building the fourth Borouge facility – Borouge 4 – at the…

Thermo Fisher Scientific to build manufacturing site in North Carolina

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) announced it will build a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Mebane, N.C. The site is part of a recently announced co-investment with the U.S. government – a $192.5 million contract in coordination with the U.S.…

Cabot acquires carbon black manufacturer in China

Cabot Corp. (Boston, Ma.) announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Tokai Carbon (Tianjin) Co., Ltd from Tokai Carbon Group for $9 million, subject to customary closing adjustments. The carbon black manufacturing facility was commissioned in 2006…

Tatneft licenses Versalis technologies for new synthetic rubber production plants

PJSC Tatneft (Almetyevsk, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia) has signed license and engineering agreement with Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese). The license obtained by Tatneft from Versalis pertains to technologies for the production of nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) and carboxylate styrene…