Downstream news

The plant will be located at Shell’s Rhineland refinery in Germany and will have a peak capacity of 10 MW.

The deal adds new software capabilities to improve plant performance and brings new technologies to Emerson’s Operational Certainty™ initiative.

Amy Hebert will join the company’s executive management on 1 February.

Kathryn Clay has been appointed the new President of ILTA, and will take up her position on 1 March.

Natural gas spot prices at Henry Hub in 2017 averaged about US¢50/million Btu higher than in 2016, according to the US EIA.

Cheniere Marketing and Trafigura have entered into a LNG sale and purchase agreement.

EnergyQuest reports that Australia’s total annual exports of LNG are up 26% to a record 56.8 million t.

Gasunie LNG Holding B.V., Oiltanking GmbH and Vopak LNG Holding B.V. aim to operate an LNG terminal in northern Germany.

VUV Analytics tripled revenues in fuels and petrochemicals in 2017 and took its first order in Saudi Arabia.

Praxair, Inc. has expanded its long-term hydrogen supply agreement with Motiva Enterprises LLC for a refinery in Texas, US.