Downstream news

Saudi Aramco and Total have awarded McDermott a contract for what will be one of the largest mixed feed crackers in the world.

Total has announced plans to double the polypropylene recycling capacity of its affiliate company, Synova.

ClearSign has announced that it has received an order from ExxonMobil for its process burner technology.

Extending its support for an additional five years, ExxonMobil is expanding its participation in MIT Energy Initiative’s research.

FERC has issued a Notice of Schedule for Environmental Review to Commonwealth LNG for its US project.

BP and ZPCC have signed an agreement to explore the creation of an acetic acid joint venture in China.

Arkema has brought a new 90 000 t acrylic acid reactor on stream at its Clear Lake site in Texas, US.

The Aries Linden Biosolids Gasification Facility in Linden, New Jersey, US, will process 430 tpd of biosolids into clean renewable energy upon completion.

A five-member team from NUS Engineering, Keppel Data Centres and SLNG will jointly develop a prototype of a new cooling medium that can achieve two key functions: firstly, to efficiently store and carry cold energy from the Singapore LNG Terminal to the various data centres, and secondly, to be circulated within the cooling loop in each data centre to perform effective cooling.

Total China Investment (TCI) will hold a 49% share in the new company while Zhejiang Zheneng Petroleum New Energy (ZZPNE) will hold the remaining.