Europe downstream news

The Sustainable Markets Initiative has announced that Carbon Clean has been awarded its 2023 Terra Carta Seal.

At an award ceremony in Düsseldorf on 23 November 2023, MAN Energy Solutions won the 16th German Sustainability Award as one of the winners in the ‘Mechanical and Plant Engineering’ company category.

Repsol Butano has entered into an agreement with ABB to upgrade its distributed control systems (DCS) at 12 of the energy company’s butane factories across Spain.

HAROPA PORT and VERSO ENERGY have signed an agreement for the installation of a plant to produce low-carbon hydrogen and synthetic fuels.

With the approval of funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, BASF has taken a major step in its project aimed at decarbonising the chemical industry.

Shell and Rotterdam The Hague Airport (RTHA) have signed a long-term agreement to blend sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on all aircraft fuelled at the airport, starting in 2024.

Project Speedbird – a partnership between LanzaJet, British Airways, and Nova Pangaea Technologies – has secured a total of £9 million from the UK government's Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF) competition.

After pioneering research developed over a decade at the University of Oxford, OXCCU has been awarded a grant through the UK government’s Advanced Fuels Fund.

LyondellBasell has made the Final Investment Decision (FID) to build the company's first industrial-scale catalytic advanced recycling demonstration plant at its Wesseling, Germany, site.

Gabriel Buffin, Bijay Barik and Laurent Watripont, Axens, discuss how isomerisation can open up a world of opportunities for a more sustainable refining industry.