The environment

According to Wood Mackenzie, potential low-carbon hydrogen demand from the global refining sector could reach 50 million tpy by 2050.

ABB has been selected by Braya Renewable Fuels to support the transformation of the idled Come By Chance oil refinery in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, into a renewable fuels production centre.

Chevron and KazMunayGas have announced an MoU to explore potential lower-carbon business opportunities in Kazakhstan.

Syngenta leveraged Seeq on AWS for carbon intensity tracking and nitrogen blanket balancing, enabling the company to drive sustainability goals and business value through production, quality, yield, and environmental improvements.

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.