Downstream news

Synthomer and Lummus Technology have announced the launch of a new partnership to license Synthomer’s proprietary acrylic acid esters technology.

LanzaJet has been awarded more than £10 million from the UK Department for Transport’s Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF) to accelerate development of Project Speedbird, a major SAF biorefinery in Teesside, UK.

ABB has launched the GCP100 gas chromatograph for cybersecurity and real-time analysis of complex gas mixtures in the natural gas, biogas, oil, and petrochemical industries.

Kurita America Inc. and Cyclopure have announced a partnership to deliver an advanced and sustainable solution for removing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from water with a completely regenerable material.

The first truckloads of recycled styrene monomer (SM) have arrived at INEOS Styrolution’s Antwerp site, Belgium, supplied by Indaver.

OXCCU, the Oxford University spin-out developing a one-step process to convert waste carbon into SAF, has raised £20.75 million ($28 million) in a Series B funding round.

The EIA expects US total distillate inventories will end 2025 and 2026 at lower levels than previous years because of significant inventory draws in 2025, strong export demand, and domestic production declines.

This Spotlight Interview explores Ebara Elliott Energy's article, ‘Making the switch to electric’, which featured in the August 2025 issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering magazine.

Woodside has signed an LNG heads of agreement (HoA) to supply BOTAS with 5.8 billion m3 natural gas equivalent of LNG for up to nine years starting in 2030.

Wood Mackenzie has disclosed that oil and gas companies need to brace for a tough 2026 as capital budgets fall and low-carbon spending faces further cuts.