Downstream contract news

NEXTCHEM, through its subsidiary NextChem Tech, has signed a binding term sheet with Sarlux S.r.l. to act as engineering services and technology provider for the implementation of a pilot SAF plant in Italy.

Crowley has accepted delivery of the LNG bunker barge, Progress, the largest US Jones Act-compliant vessel of its kind, after construction was completed at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, US.

Fortescue and COSCO SHIPPING have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together on decarbonising shipping.

Gunvor Group (Gunvor) will join VARO Energy (VARO) in building a large-scale SAF manufacturing facility at the Gunvor Energy Rotterdam site (the Netherlands) through a proposed joint venture (JV).

This partnership aims to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline and contextualise data management and asset performance across the oil and gas, energy, petrochemicals, and manufacturing industries.

International Airlines Group (IAG) has reached an agreement with Repsol for the purchase and supply during the next six months of more than 28 000 t of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

Neste and HELLENiQ ENERGY have collaborated to deliver blended Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel to HELLENiQ ENERGY’s facilities in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Repsol and Iberia have signed an agreement with Inditex for the purchase of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

Neste has commissioned terminal capacity at ONEOK’s terminal in Houston, Texas, US, for blending and storing Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™.

HIF Global has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Airbus to advance the global development of e-Fuels for aviation via the methanol to jet fuel (MTJ) pathway.