Europe downstream news

Uniper and Five Bioenergy have signed a seven-year biomethane purchase agreement from three of Spain’s largest biomethane plants, which are located in Murcia, Spain.

Eni has launched the authorisation process for the Environmental Impact Assessment (VIA) to transform its industrial site in Priolo, Sicily, Italy, a new biorefinery and chemical recycling plant for plastics.

Integra Plastics AD, Bulgaria, a member of the Borealis group, is converting its production facility to produce polypropylene starting in October 2025.

Chevron Phillips Chemical have officially inaugurated the expansion of the polyalphaolefin (PAO) production unit in Beringen, Belgium.

The MultiPHLY hydrogen project has reached a milestone with the start-up of a multi-megawatt electrolyser at Neste’s refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Technip Energies has been awarded two engineering services contracts by Repsol for the development of the Ecoplanta project, a waste-to-methanol facility to be built in El Morell, Spain.

Plug Power has delivered its first 10 MW electrolyser for a 100 MW green hydrogen project at Galp’s Sines Refinery, Portugal.

Exolum has embarked upon the process for authorisation for the construction of a new terminal for storage of bulk liquid at the Outer Port of A Coruña, on the Punta Langosteira dock, Spain.

LanzaJet has been awarded more than £10 million from the UK Department for Transport’s Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF) to accelerate development of Project Speedbird, a major SAF biorefinery in Teesside, UK.

Eni has announced that it has received approval to convert selected units at the Sannazzaro de’ Burgondi refinery into a biorefinery, Pavia, Italy.