Darling Ingredients Inc. (Irving, Tex.; www.darlingii.com) and Valero Energy Corp. (San Antonio, Tex.; www.valero.com) jointly announced today that their 50/50 joint venture, Diamond Green Diesel (DGD), has received approval from both companies' boards of directors to proceed with the construction…
CVR Energy, Inc. subsidiary will base a revamp of its Oklahoma petroleum refinery Haldor Topsoe A/S's (Lyngby, Denmark) HydroFlex technology to produce approximately 100 million gallons of renewable diesel per year. Topsoe will deliver basic engineering, license, proprietary equipment and…
Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) has joined an international consortium to develop cutting-edge renewable hydrogen technology. The H24All project, led by a consortium of fifteen partners, has presented an application for European Green Deal funding to develop Europe’s first 100 megawatt…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a study by Keppel Data Centres Holding Pte Ltd (Keppel Data Centres) to assess scenarios for alternative hydrogen-based energy sources to supply new data center investment and deployment in Singapore. Through…
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. (Tokyo) announced plans to further bolster the production capacity of Shintech Inc., its subsidiary in the U.S. In July 2018, Shintech broke ground in a greenfield site in Plaquemine, Louisiana for a new integrated plant, which is…
Mainstream Pine Products LLC announced plans for an estimated $90-million crude tall oil (CTO) biorefinery at the Charleston International Manufacturing Center (CIMC) in Berkeley County, S.C. The biorefinery will be a highly advanced recycling facility with capacity to process 110,000…
ECB Group Paraguay and Shell Trading (US) Co. have signed a multi-year contract that will provide more than 500 million liters/yr of renewable diesel and renewable jet fuel to Shell, one of the world's largest energy companies. The contract is…
ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is investing more than five million euros in an extrusion system for food-grade recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) made of used PET bottles (so-called post-consumer material) at its site in Anagni, Italy. Anagni is home to one…
Air Liquide (Paris) has completed the construction of the world's largest PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) electrolyzer. Supplied with renewable energy, this unit is now producing up to 8.2 metric tons per day (m.t./d) of low-carbon hydrogen in Bécancour, Québec. With…
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and the China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), one of the largest integrated energy companies in China, announced the signing of an agreement to form a 50:50 joint venture (JV) which will produce propylene…