Downstream news updates

Sempra Infrastructure has entered into a long-term sale and purchase agreement with ENGIE for the supply of LNG from Phase 1 of its proposed Port Arthur LNG project in Texas, US.

Analyser performance tests, in-house repairs, annual services and calibration, training, upgrades and rental equipment are all available at the Servomex Korea Service Center.

ADNOC is accelerating operationalisation of its board-mandated low-carbon growth strategy that will focus on renewable energy, clean hydrogen, CCS, as well as international expansion in gas, LNG and chemicals.

Woodside has entered into a gas sales agreement with Qenos for the supply of natural gas from Woodside’s equity position in Bass Strait in the Australian state of Victoria.

ExxonMobil has announced the successful start-up of its new polypropylene production unit at the Polyolefins Plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US.

Snam has successfully completed a series of tests aimed at experimenting with the use of hydrogen as a fuel to power gas turbines, at one of its natural gas compression stations in Istrana, Italy.

TotalEnergies will deliver more than 800 000 t of SAF to Air France-KLM Group airlines, over a 10-year period.

API has submitted comments on DOE's draft 'National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap', expressing concern that it fails to adequately consider all forms of hydrogen production.

Axens has successfully started up an ethanol-to-ethylene pilot plant in Japan, in partnership with Sumitomo Chemical.

Pennzoil-Quaker State Co., a subsidiary of Shell, has acquired a 49% interest in Blue Tide Environmental – a company focused on building a global network of lubricant recycling facilities.

ELAFLEX HIBY and SGB have announced that the ELAFLEX HIBY Group has acquired the German supplier and manufacturer of leak detection technology, SGB GmbH.

Rotoflow, an Air Products business, has opened a new solutions centre in the Qingpu district of Shanghai, China, to better serve the turbomachinery needs of customers throughout Asia.

Clariant Catalysts has teamed up with Evonik and thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions in a major propylene oxide project.

Essar Oil UK Ltd has announced its plan to build a £360 million major new carbon capture plant at its Stanlow refinery in line with its ambition to become a leading low carbon refinery by 2030.

Neste and Airbus have signed an agreement to advance the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) within the aviation sector. Both parties share a vision that SAF is a key solution to helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions of air travel.

Equatorial Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have signed an MoU to develop existing synergies across the countries' upstream, downstream, energy infrastructure and logistics sectors.

A new report from the Energy Efficiency Movement shows that improving industrial energy efficiency is the fastest and most effective way for a business to cut energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions.

KBC has announced the release of Visual MESA® Production Accounting 4.2 for yield accounting and data reconciliation in oil, gas and chemical operations.

ExxonMobil has added Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ carbon capture technology to its integrated CCS offering.

Natural gas has played an increasingly important role in both Egypt and Israel’s economies over the past 20 years, with both consumption and production having grown substantially.

With this new site in Changzhou, China, HOERBIGER has strengthened its presence in the country, and laid the foundation for further growth in an important market.

Technip Energies has been awarded a contract for sustainable aviation fuels production at TotalEnergies’ Grandpuits zero-crude platform in France.

Kent, an engineering company in oil and gas; decarbonisation; CCUS; offshore wind; and hydrogen, has been awarded a major contract win by INEOS Energy for Project Greensand in Denmark.

Shell Petroleum NV has reached an agreement with Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP, Pioneer Point Partners and Sampension to acquire 100% shareholding of Nature Energy Biogas A/S.