Downstream contract news

Trafigura and Yara have signed an MOU to collaborate on the development and promotion of the use of ammonia as a clean fuel in shipping.

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.

Air Liquide Engineering & Construction has signed a contract with Zeeland Refinery, a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Lukoil, to provide a carbon capture and liquefaction solution in the Netherlands.

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.

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

IDTecEx discuss how carbon capture technology may be essential in helping in the fight against climate change, but that carbon capture from power stations and steel manufacturing plants may not be enough to avoid the worst impacts.