Europe downstream news

Research by the IEEFA shows the EU’s rising reliance on US LNG has created a potentially high-risk geopolitical dependency and could cause it to miss its gas demand reduction commitments.

Orlen are set to build a 40 MW solar project in the immediate vicinity of Orlen’s production plant in Plock, Poland.

A wave of new LNG supply could reverse a decade of European industrial decline, cutting annual energy costs by €39 billion by 2032 according to Wood Mackenzie's latest Horizons report.

VARO Energy has announced that it has completed the Preem AB acquisition, marking the delivery of VARO Energy’s 2022 ONE VARO Transformation strategy by creating VAROPreem.

Econotherm has announced that it has been awarded a contract exceeding €3 million for the supply of three fired heater air pre-heaters in a Rotterdam-based refinery, the Netherlands.

UK-based startup OXCCU, which has developed a new process to create sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) has been crowned the winner of the 2026 Startups 100 Sustainability Award.

Haffner Energy and IGNIS P2X have announced that they have begun their bio/e-SAF collaborative project AeroVerde, and their immediate task consists in identifying the project’s first site’s precise location in Spain.

L&T’s Hydrocarbon Onshore business vertical (L&T Onshore) has won a major order from Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd (BPCL) for a polyethylene swing unit in India.

The Rijeka refinery upgrade project, Croatia, has entered its final phase of implementation as construction works on the key systems of the new processing units have been completed.

NEXTCHEM has inaugurated its new premises at its MyReplast upcycling plant in Bedizzole, Brescia, Italy, during a ceremony attended by local authorities and company top management.