Downstream news

LanzaTech Global, Inc. has received a grant of £6.4 million from the UK government's Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF), operated by the Department for Transport (DfT).

New Fortress Energy Inc., via a subsidiary, has executed a 5-year agreement for the deployment of the Energos Winter, an FSRU, with the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co. (EGAS).

Following a slowdown in 2025, growth in global demand for natural gas is expected to rise in 2026, according to the IEA’s 2Q25 Gas Market Report.

BASF and AltaGas have signed a long-term commercial agreement for the supply of butane via AltaGas and Royal Vopak's Ridley Island Energy Export Facility (REEF) commencing in 2027.

The average historical volatility of the daily Henry Hub front-month futures price trended downward through 1H25, with quarterly volatility falling from a recent high of 81% in the 4Q24 to 69% by mid-2025.

SWISS has become the first airline to integrate the solar fuel manufactured by the Swiss-based Synhelion clean-tech company into its regular flight operations.

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.