The environment

The signing of a sales-purchase agreement by MOL to acquire Aurora signals MOL’s entry into recycled plastic compounding.

Brightmark Energy closes US$260 million in financing for the US’ first commercial-scale plastics-to-fuel plant.

The California Energy Commission has awarded US$3 million to SoCalGas to advance technology that could create twice as much RNG as anaerobic digestion processes.

Dow will work with PETRONAS Chemicals Group as its first carbon savings contributor to the Dow-International Olympic Committee Official Carbon Partnership.

Braskem has signed an agreement with Siemens to modernise a cogeneration power and steam plant at its petrochemical complex in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

MHPS have signed a TLA with CSIC Longjiang GH Gas Turbine Co. Ltd in a move aimed at meeting China’s rising demand for distributed power generation.

SoCalGas’ new strategy aims to help keep energy affordable, develop long-term renewable energy storage, and promote rapid consumer adoption.

ClassNK has developed ‘Guidance for onboard use of Compliant Fuel Oil with SOx regulation from 2020’.

The US Energy Administration is projecting the stabilisation of energy-related CO2 emissions around current levels for over four decades.

Shell has opened a solar park at the Shell Moerdijk Chemical Plant in the Netherlands.

James Morgan, Opportune LLP, discusses the incoming waves for refiners and shipowners as a result of IMO 2020.

Wärtsilä has been given Notice to Proceed for a liquid biogas (bioLNG) plant to be built in Asker, Norway.

The EIA forecasts that several recent trends in US biofuels markets will continue through 2020.

Anellotech, IFPEN and Axens have processed renewably-sourced aromatics to successfully recover high-purity bio-based paraxylene.

A new research project is exploring ammonia’s potential as a sustainable fuel and a good solution for “storing” green power from wind turbines and solar cells.