The environment

Neste and Circularise have announced a partnership to introduce Circularise’s traceability software into circular polymers and chemicals supply chains, increasing transparency along the value chain.

According to GlobalData, Australia plans to accelerate its adoption of EVs, support renewable refineries for the growth of biofuels, increase its CCS projects, and develop low-carbon hydrogen markets across all industries.

The initiative will focus on helping oil and gas customers with upstream, midstream and downstream operations to monitor and reduce fugitive methane emissions, which are more than 25 times more potent than CO2.

Worley has been awarded the early front-end engineering services for a carbon capture facility at the Phillips 66 Humber Refinery in the UK.

Pertamina and Air Liquide Indonesia have agreed to collaborate on the development of carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) technology at the Balikpapan Refinery Processing Unit in Indonesia.

The Phillips 66 Humber Refinery in the UK is on track to become the first refinery in the world to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions using a technology pioneered by Shell Catalysts & Technologies.

Chevron, through its Chevron New Energies division, has announced the launch of a CCS project aimed at reducing the carbon intensity of its operations in San Joaquin Valley, California, US.

Encina, a producer of circular chemicals, has achieved the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS certification for its circular monomers converted from post-consumer and scrap plastic.

New Hope Energy will build an advanced recycling plant in Texas, US, to transform end-of-life plastic waste into a recycled feedstock.

Worley and Avantium are progressing towards a world-first commercial scale renewable plastics facility in the Netherlands.

BP and Linde have announced plans to advance a major CCS project in Texas, US, that will enable low-carbon hydrogen production at Linde’s existing facilities.

The companies have announced their collaboration to study a PET chemical recycling facility at Toray Films Europe's production site in Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost, France.

Shell has deployed the OSDU Data Platform – a cloud native, open-source technology which provides the energy industry a toolbox to address the undifferentiated capabilities needed to manage large disconnected data sets.

Chevron Corp., through its subsidiary Chevron New Ventures Pte. Ltd., and Indonesia’s PT Pertamina (Persero) have announced a partnership to explore potential lower-carbon business opportunities in Indonesia.

Cyclyx International, a consortium-based post-use plastic innovation company with a mission to increase the recycling rate of plastic, has announced that Velcro Companies has joined Cyclyx as the newest member of the consortium.