Environment
TotalEnergies to supply up to 1.5 MMt of more SAF to Air France-KLM
TotalEnergies and Air France-KLM have signed an agreement for TotalEnergies to supply up to 1.5 MMt of more sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Air France-KLM Group airlines over a 10-yr period, until 2035.
UPM Biochemicals and Södra accelerate the commercialization of innovative lignin-based solutions
UPM is growing its portfolio of sustainable lignin solutions over the past years. UPM BioPiva™ is a range of cost-effective, non-toxic and high-purity kraft lignin products used in renewable adhesives and binders as a replacement for fossil-based chemicals.
LanzaTech signs MLA with SEKISUI to develop multiple commercial-scale waste-to-ethanol plants across Japan
LanzaTech Global has signed a Master License Agreement with SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO. to deploy, at commercial scale, a jointly developed platform that converts syngas derived from municipal solid waste and industrial solid waste into ethanol.
Twelve announces $645 MM in funding to transform CO2 into jet fuel and electrochemicals at scale
Twelve, the carbon transformation company that converts captured carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable chemicals, fuels and other essential products typically made from fossil fuels, has announced $645 MM in funding.
Cybersecurity: A discussion on the EU's NIS2 Directive with ABB's Global Cybersecurity Lead Tobias Nitzsche
Hydrocarbon Processing sat down with Tobias Nitzsche, Global Cyber Security Practice Lead, ABB, to discuss the European Union’s (EU’s) NIS2 Directive—the EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity—and how it will affect the hydrocarbon processing industry.
RWE and AM Green Ammonia to supply up to 250,000 tpy of RFNBO-compliant ammonia from India
RWE Supply & Trading has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with AM Green Ammonia B.V. (AMG) for the long-term supply of green ammonia from its plants based in India.
U.S. offers $1.56-B conditional loan for Indiana ammonia facility
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has made a conditional loan guarantee of up to $1.56 B to Wabash Valley Resources to help build a low-emissions ammonia production facility in Indiana.
McDermott and BW Offshore collaborate to enable offshore blue ammonia production
McDermott and BW Offshore have entered into a collaboration to advance the technical and commercial viability of offshore blue ammonia production.
Global consortium pioneers ammonia cargo transfer between ships at Australian port
Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Norway's Yara and Singapore's Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation said they had jointly completed an ammonia cargo transfer operation in Australia that will pave the way for ammonia bunkering in the region.
Rising jet fuel stocks weigh on U.S. West Coast refiner margins
Refiner margins on jet fuel averaged $0.05/gallon (gal) at the Los Angeles trading hub last month, the lowest in at least five years, as low demand and high supplies pushed inventories to a record high.
- LanzaJet and BioD announce feasibility study for SAF plant in Colombia 5/13
- U.S. House targets big climate, clean energy rollbacks in budget proposal 5/13
- BASF is expanding its portfolio of raw materials for the production of concrete superplasticizers for the construction industry in the European market 5/13
- Ionikylation unit at PetroChina's Dagang refinery reaches 1,000 days of continuous operation 5/12
- thyssenkrupp Uhde successfully commissions EnviNOx® emission reduction system for Covestro’s NAUCI project in China 5/12
- Univation Technologies announces world-scale 800,000-tpy design capacity for UNIPOL™ PE process technology 5/12
