Downstream contract news

Chart Industries has completed a minority investment in Earthly Labs for the amount of US$5 million and a commercial MOU.

Brooge Energy Ltd has announced that its customers have successfully renewed their fixed lease contracts for 233 071 cubic metres of Brooge Energy’s Phase I storage capacity.

Vitol Aviation, a fuel supplier at Heathrow, UK, is making Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ available ahead of the G7 Summit to be held from 11 to 13 June 2021.

POET has acquired Flint Hills Resources’ biofuel business, increasing POET production capacity to 3 billion gallons per year.

Chevron Phillips Chemical has broken ground on a new world-scale unit for on-purpose 1-hexene in Old Ocean, Texas, US, near its Sweeny facility.

Venture Global LNG has announced plans to capture and sequester carbon at its Calcasieu Pass and Plaquemines LNG facilities.

Eurotank Amsterdam is investing in the conversion of its gas oil tanks, making them suitable for storing biofuels, mixed biofuels and hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), following a successful pilot project.

Lummus Technology has announced that its Green Circle business and Synthos have started collaborating to commercialise Synthos' biobutadiene technology.

Shell has sold its Mobile Chemical refinery and associated co-located logistics infrastructure, including product racks, an associated dock, and the Blakeley Island terminal, to Vertex Energy.

The technology group Wärtsilä will supply a biogas liquefaction plant to Norway-based Biokraft, a subsidiary of the Scandinavian Biogas Group and a major player in the global biogas market.