Downstream news

Valmet has received an order from Saica Group to supply a biomass boiler and flue gas cleaning system for Saica Group’s plant in El Burgo de Ebro, Zaragoza, Spain.

Evonik’s Coating & Adhesive Resins business line has started using green electricity for its polybutadiene production in Marl, Germany.

TotalEnergies has selected AspenTech Inmation™ to collect and centralise millions of real-time data points from the company’s industrial sites worldwide, ensuring secure and unified access to data.

Sasol Chemicals and German startup INERATEC have signed a letter of intent (LoI) committing to the supply of Sasol’s next generation catalyst as soon as the development cycle is completed in 2026.

The US exported more crude oil to Nigeria than it received from Nigeria for the first time in February and March 2025, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports.

Everllence has published its sustainability report for financial year 2024, including a 63% reduction in CO2 emissions from its own global production, compared to 2018.

Essar Energy Transition (EET) has secured £2.5 million funding from the UK government to develop one of the largest advanced SAF production facilities in the UK, based at EET’s Stanlow energy hub.

bp has announced that it has agreed to sell its US onshore wind business, BP Wind Energy North America Inc. (bp Wind Energy), to LS Power, as part of its divestment programme to focus business on low-carbon energy and oil and gas.

MT Group has been awarded a major contract for the execution of all topside and onshore-based infrastructure at the new jetty in Brunsbüttel FSRU LNG terminal in Germany.

At the Invest Zambia International Conference, the Industrial Development Corp. (IDC) has signed two memoranda of understandings (MoUs) worth over US$2 billion, securing major investments in Zambia’s energy sector.