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Metso Outotec to divest Waste Recycling business

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed an agreement to divest its Waste Recycling business line to Ahlström Capital, a family-owned investment company. Metso Outotec announced in October 2020 its decision to divest its Recycling business which comprises of the…

Uniper joins Oman’s green hydrogen and ammonia initiative

Oman’s strategic green hydrogen project, HYPORT Duqm, has signed a cooperation agreement with energy giant Uniper SE (Düsseldorf, Germany). Under the cooperation, Uniper will be joining the project team to provide engineering services and negotiate an exclusive offtake agreement of…

Siemens to build one of Europe’s most powerful battery storage facilities

Siemens Smart Infrastructure (Zug, Switzerland) and Zukunftsenergie Nordostbayern GmbH (ZENOB) signed a letter of intent in Wunsiedel for the turnkey construction of a 100-MW battery storage facility in the German town. The plant, with a storage capacity of 200 MWh,…

TechnipFMC and partners leading feasibility study for wind-powered H2-generation plant

Portuguese energy utility EDP, TechnipFMC (Paris) and other research partners are joining forces to develop a conceptual engineering and economic feasibility study for a new offshore system for green hydrogen production from offshore wind power, called the BEHYOND project. The…

ExxonMobil joins carbon capture and storage project in Scotland

Exxon Mobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to participate in the recently announced Acorn carbon capture and storage project (CCS) in Scotland. The project plans to capture and store approximately 5-6 million tons of CO2 per…

SSE and Equinor plan to set up world-scale hydrogen-storage facility in the U.K.

SSE Thermal (Perth, Australia) and Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) are developing plans for one of the world’s largest hydrogen storage facilities at their existing Aldbrough, U.K. site on the East Yorkshire coast. The facility could be storing low-carbon hydrogen…

Chevron and Cummins exploring strategic alliance for hydrogen opportunities

Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.), through its Chevron Products Company division (Chevron), and Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore a strategic alliance to develop commercially viable business opportunities in hydrogen and other alternative…

Major green ammonia and hydrogen project announced in Morocco

Fusion Fuel Green PLC (Dublin, Ireland), a green hydrogen technology company, announced that Aziz Rabbah, the Moroccan Minister of Energy, Mines and Environment, unveiled the HEVO Ammonia Morocco project at an event yesterday in Rabat, Morocco. The project is Morocco’s…

Asahi Kasei to double capacity for PVDF membranes

Asahi Kasei Corp.’s (Tokyo, Japan) Medical business has decided to expand production capacity of hydrophilic PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride) hollow-fiber membranes for Planova BioEX filters at its spinning plant in Oita, Japan. The global COVID-19 pandemic has increased the urgent demand…

Abengoa advances commissioning of Rabigh desalination plant

Abengoa SA (Seville, Spain) has achieved the production of the first permeate, that is, obtaining the first desalinated water, at the 600,000-m3/d desalination plant that it is building in the city of Rabigh, in Saudi Arabia This important milestone occurred…