The environment

NextChem has been awarded a contract by Storengy to carry out an Advanced Basic Engineering Study for a waste wood and solid recovered fuel conversion plant to produce biomethane.

Independent energy expert and assurance provider DNV has been awarded four frame contracts with Energinet TSO, Denmark’s national transmission system operator for electricity and gas, for ‘green deal’ work on the Danish transmission gas grid in relation to PtX (Power to X).

Neste, MAN and Altens have signed a partnership contract aimed at promoting biofuels in France.

Woodside Energy has announced a US$9.9 million equity investment in String Bio Private Ltd, the developer of a process that can recycle greenhouse gases into value-added products.

Tüpras will license Honeywell UOP’s technology to produce biofuels at its refinery in Izmir, Türkiye.

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. has announced that its subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A., in cooperation with its sister company Nextchem S.p.A., has been awarded a lump sum turn-key EPC contract for a low-carbon ammonia synloop facility to be built in the GCC region.

Axens has announced that Plastic Energy’s TAC process has now been fully integrated into the company’s technology portfolio.

Technip Energies has been awarded a contract for a world-first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at a waste to energy plant located in Oslo, Norway.

HPC Industries LLC and Macquarie Group's Commodities and Global Markets group have formed a joint venture, Circularix, to produce recycled polyethylene terephthalate.

Baker Hughes and Petrosafe, a subsidiary of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corp., have announced a contract that will mark the first deployment of Baker Hughes’ flare.IQ technology in refinery operations in Egypt.

Sulzer has supported Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. to complete the construction of the world’s first commercial-scale production plant that will convert municipal solid waste into renewable transportation fuels.

Maire Tecnimont has been granted a FEED contract by African Refineries Port Harcourt Ltd for a 100 000 bpd refining plant.

Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. is expanding its refining capacity from its current 3 million tpy to 9 million by installing a new 6 million tpy capacity Crude Oil Distillation Unit / Vacuum Distillation Unit and associated downstream process units as part of the NREP.

Neste has purchased the European rights to Alterra Energy’s liquefaction technology, further solidifying the company’s efforts to advance chemical recycling.

The furnace has been commissioned by Essar Oil UK as it transitions to run its operations on hydrogen as part of HyNet, the UK’s leading decarbonisation cluster and will be the UK’s first refinery-based hydrogen-powered furnace.