Downstream news updates

McDermott International Ltd and CTCI have announced that their JV has received the mechanical completion certificate for GCGV MEG facility.

Lummus Technology and Chevron Lummus Global have announced multiple technology contracts from North Huajin Refining and Petrochemical Co. Ltd for a grassroots refinery and petrochemical complex.

Burckhardt Compression has announced that it will deliver a H2 Diaphragm Compressor unit for a green hydrogen project in Hungary.

GETEC has reached a key milestone in the construction of the innovative biomass cogeneration plant for Clariant in Podari, Romania.

TechnipFMC has announced the launch of the placement of 16 million Technip Energies shares through a private placement by way of an accelerated bookbuild offering.

Nalco Water, Ecolab’s water and process management business, has announced the formation of its new Global Chemical organisation.

Linde has announced that it has started up its new on-site facility in Qinzhou, China, supplying oxygen and other industrial gases to Shanghai Huayi's new chemical complex.

KBR Inc. has announced that it has been awarded technology licensing contracts by PKN ORLEN for its Solvent Deasphalting (SDA) and Residue Fluid Catalytic Cracking (RFCC) technologies.

The project will unlock multiple benefits across the LNG and chemicals value chains, adopting a sustainable approach towards enhancing Singapore’s energy security.

PGNiG has announced that it has decided to terminate the sale and purchase agreement with Port Arthur LNG due to delays in the project’s development.

In this special Spotlight session, Hydrocarbon Engineering’s Senior Editor, Callum O’Reilly, sits down with Elies Abdelmalek, Senior Director at Honeywell, leading Technology Consulting with the Connected Industrial practice, to discuss digital transformation in the industrial sector.

Haldor Topsoe and Yanchang have formed a joint venture with the aim of delivering locally produced MK-151+ methanol synthesis catalysts to the Chinese market.

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that US exports of LNG continued to grow in the first six months of 2021.

hte was selected by Unifrax to test different catalytically functionalised high-temperature fibres.

PGNiG has signed agreements with Venture Global Calcasieu Pass LLC and Venture Global Plaquemines LLC to purchase another 2 million tpy of LNG for 20 years.

The US EIA reports that CO2 emissions from energy consumption in the US fell to the lowest level since 1983 last year.

Created to simplify and optimise business processes for oil storage financing, CALISTA inventory financing is an end-to-end platform that collaborates with various commodity trading companies, banks, and terminals.

ExxonMobil and SABIC have announced that their joint venture, Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, has reached mechanical completion of a monoethylene glycol unit and two polyethylene units.

Tecnimont S.p.A. has been awarded a contract by Repsol for the realisation of a polypropylene unit and a linear polyethylene unit on an EPC lump sum turn-key basis.

Jefferson Energy Companies has entered into a new contract to expand terminal services to ExxonMobil Oil Corp.

BP and Johnson Matthey have partnered with the University of Manchester and Cardiff University on new catalyst technology to help achieve net zero.

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd has announced that it will build India’s first 'green hydrogen' plant at its Mathura refinery.

Eni and the government of Kenya have signed a MoU to promote decarbonisation by strengthening cooperation in the sustainable bio-fuel value chain.

The New Energy Freedom refinery will produce carbon-negative fuel.