Chennai Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (CPCL), a group company of Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL) has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) to supply several advanced technologies for its state-of-the-art 9 MTPA refinery to be set at Cauvery Basin at Nagapattinam in Tamil…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium) have entered into a non-exclusive patent cross-license agreement covering a broad range of cathode active materials (CAM) and their precursors (PCAM), including chemistries such as nickel cobalt manganese (NCM), nickel cobalt…
Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced that it will modify its existing renewables production capacity in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to enable production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Currently, the refinery produces mainly Neste MY Renewable Diesel. The modifications to the refinery,…
Petrofac Ltd. (St. Helier, U.K.) announced that the Clean Fuels Project for Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) has achieved a further significant milestone, with the safe and successful commissioning of Hydrocracker Unit 214 at Mina Abdullah Refinery. In December 2020,…
As a part of its first-quarter 2021 financial results, Phillips 66 (Houston) provided an update on its conversion project at the San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, to meet the growing demand for renewable fuels. In April, the company completed…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that its Novolen business has been awarded a polypropylene (PP) contract by BUA Refinery, a subsidiary of Nigeria's BUA Group, at their grassroots refinery in Nigeria. Lummus' scope includes the technology license for a polypropylene unit…
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) announced that it has acquired 3F Feed & Food, a European leader specializing in the technical and commercial development of additives for animal feed and human food. Located in Spain, 3F's business and assets are…
Kia Motors and SK Innovation (both Seoul, South Korea) announced that they had secured the possibility of building an industrial ecosystem that enables eco-friendly handling of EV batteries and technological basis thereof by re-collecting metals such as lithium from used…
Aker Solutions ASA (Lysaker, Norway) has signed a contract with Nordic Blue Crude (NBC) for front-end engineering and design (FEED) of a new e-Fuel facility at Herøya in Porsgrunn, Norway. The e-Fuel plant is planned to produce CO2-neutral fuel by…
Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.) and ETB Global B.V. (ETB) have signed a letter of intent to collaborate on the development of purified bio-based 1,3-butadiene. This will see the two companies combine their respective technology and process expertise to accelerate the development…