Europe downstream news

The UK government has confirmed funding to launch the UK's first carbon capture sites, set to bring thousands of new skilled jobs, billions in private investment and support acceleration to net zero.

BASF has inaugurated a new world-scale production plant for alkyl ethanolamines at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium.

MAIRE, through its subsidiaries NEXTCHEM and KT (Integrated E&C Solutions), acted as technology integrator and completed the full EPC works for a carbon plant at the Eni natural gas treatment plant of Casalborsetti, near Ravenna, Italy.

EET Fuels (trading name of Essar Oil (UK) Ltd), which plans to create the world’s leading low-carbon process refinery, has progressed to the front-end engineering design (FEED) stage of its industrial carbon capture (ICC) project.

VARO Energy has announced the divestment of its German subsidiary, VARO Energy Direct GmbH, to Hoyer SE (Hoyer).

Neste is expanding its logistics infrastructure for liquefied recycled raw materials at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland, including materials such as liquefied waste plastic and liquefied rubber tires.

OXCCU, a leading carbon-to-value company converting carbon dioxide into fuels, chemicals and plastics, has announced the launch of its first official demonstration plant, OX1, at Oxford Airport.

NEXTCHEM, through its subsidiary NextChem Tech, has signed a binding term sheet with Sarlux S.r.l. to act as engineering services and technology provider for the implementation of a pilot SAF plant in Italy.

MAIRE has informed that KT - Kinetics Technology (Integrated E&C Solutions) has finalised the acquisition of the entire share capital of APS Evolution S.r.l.

The major turnaround with scheduled maintenance of Neste’s Porvoo refinery in Finland has now been successfully completed.