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Motiva shuts FCC, alkylation units at its Port Arthur, Texas (U.S.) refinery

Motiva Enterprises completed shutting the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker-3 (FCC-3) and the alkylation units at its 626,000-bpd Port Arthur, Texas, refinery on Tuesday for planned work, said people familiar with operations.

Worley awarded FEED for First Ammonia's 300-tpd electric ammonia facility project in Texas (U.S.)

Worley has been awarded the final FEED contract by First Ammonia for its groundbreaking electric ammonia facility in Victoria on the Gulf Coast of Texas.

Boeing partners with Norsk e-Fuels to advance SAF production

Boeing’s investment will accelerate the production and availability of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the Nordics and globally. It is also intended to support the commercial aviation industry’s and ICAO member states’ common goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Emerging Fuels Technology awarded technology licensing contract for seawater CO2-to-SAF conversion plant

Emerging Fuels Technology's proprietary technology platform will be used on Sea Dragon Energy's demonstration plant that will convert CO2 extracted from seawater into synthetic jet fuel (sustainable aviation fuel).

Petron to use Verdagy's electrolyzers to power its biorefinery for SAF, renewable diesel and e-methanol production

Petron will use 320 MW of Verdagy's eDynamic® electrolyzers to produce over 45,000 tpy of green hydrogen for integration into its first biorefinery project for production of SAF, renewable diesel and e-Methanol.                   

Liquid Wind, Turun Seudun Energiantuotanto Oy to partner on eFuel facility in Finland

Liquid Wind and Turun Seudun Energiantuotanto Oy (TSE) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the development of an eFuel facility in Naantali, Finland.

Enilive (Eni) starts SAF production at 400,000-tpy Gela biorefinery in Sicily

Enilive announced the commissioning of its first plant to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at the Gela biorefinery in Sicily, which has a capacity of 400,000 tpy, representing almost a third of the expected European SAF demand in 2025

Topsoe to provide technology to Chuangui Lingang New Energy's 300,000-tpy SAF/renewable diesel plant in China

Chuangui New Energy company will use Topsoe’s licensing and engineering design services and technologies, including its HydroFlex® technology, proprietary equipment and catalysts enabling production of SAF and renewable diesel starting from used cooking oil.

Decarbonization pathway for net-zero by 2050: Carbon neutrality roadmap strategy for an integrated refinery and petrochemical facility

This article quantifies GHG emissions from various sources, such as fired heaters and boilers, within refinery and petrochemical operations. Based on these quantified emissions, a tailored carbon neutrality roadmap is developed, incorporating carbon reduction, mitigation and offsetting strategies.

Synthetic graphite demand drives attractive techno-economics for coker upgrades

Chevron Lummus Global: Manral, V.  |  Magdoza, K.  |  Antoniou, M.
Evalueserve: Suri, V.

This article describes the economic opportunity that synthetic graphite demand growth presents for American and European refiners. It describes the conditions that best suit a plant to be considered for such a revamp. The article also discusses the modifications needed in capital equipment, process conditions and feedstock to execute this change, the typical capital expenditure required to materialize it, and the transformational gross profit enhancements that could result from these modifications, given the product slate upgrade.