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At an award ceremony in Düsseldorf on 23 November 2023, MAN Energy Solutions won the 16th German Sustainability Award as one of the winners in the ‘Mechanical and Plant Engineering’ company category.

Repsol Butano has entered into an agreement with ABB to upgrade its distributed control systems (DCS) at 12 of the energy company’s butane factories across Spain.

Galileo Technologies has announced that it has carried out the first production of LNG for Gail in India.

Advanced recycling projects can provide solutions for petrochemical companies aiming to meet decarbonisation targets. Chris Ploetz and Kevin Syphard, Burns & McDonnell, USA, outline the most important factors to consider in order to achieve project success.

TechnipFMC plc has announced an agreement to sell the company’s Measurement Solutions business to One Equity Partners for US$205 million in cash.

HAROPA PORT and VERSO ENERGY have signed an agreement for the installation of a plant to produce low-carbon hydrogen and synthetic fuels.

With the approval of funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, BASF has taken a major step in its project aimed at decarbonising the chemical industry.

Quadrise has announced that the industrial demonstration test of MSAR® and bioMSAR™ fuels at a client's site in Morocco has been successfully completed.

BASF has signed a syndicated bank term loan facility with a maturity of 15 years for its new Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China.

Producers must choose between contributing to a deepening climate crisis, or becoming part of the solution by embracing the shift to clean energy, an IEA special report says.