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Shell Chemicals Europe and Pryme have announced a strategic cooperation and off-take agreement for pyrolysis oil made from recycled plastic waste.
Pryme will supply Shell from its plant located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Currently under construction, the plant is scheduled to become operational in 2022 and is forecast to convert 60,000 tonnes of plastic waste into pyrolysis oil…
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TotalEnergies and Honeywell are to promote the development of advanced plastic recycling.
Under this agreement, Honeywell will supply TotalEnergies with recycled polymer feedstock (RPF) using Honeywell’s UpCycle process technology at Honeywell and Sacyr’s advanced recycling plant, intended to be built in Andalucía, Spain.
TotalEnergies will purchase and convert this raw material into…
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Sulzer Chemtech has finalised an agreement with Encina Development Group, LLC (Encina).
The company will provide technology to recover high-purity circular aromatics from cracked oil products derived from Encina’s mixed-plastics-to-aromatics catalytic conversion platform.
Encina’s 1,000 tonnes per year waste plastics recycling facility will be located in North-east US, and is expected to…
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Trinseo’s plans for a new chemical recycling plant in Europe are progressing rapidly.
The global materials company and manufacturer of plastics and latex binders announced last year it will work with global technology provider Synova and global engineering services company Worley on an engineering package.
Work on Trinseo’s Tessenderlo in Belgium site for recycling operations is targeting…
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The Heavy-Feed Petrochemical Complex (HPC) achieved a fast and successful startup in December after using Shell Catalysts & Technologies (SC&T) C2 FE selective hydrogenation catalyst.
Operated by Hyundai Chemicals and located in Daesan, South Korea, the facility is its first heavy-feed grassroot 750 kTA ethylene cracker.
It is capable of processing various feedstocks such as naphtha, treated…
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Nexolub and Cepsa, a global energy and chemical company, have teamed up to deliver a supply of 100% carbon neutral lubricant base oils.
Net-zero lubricant base oils are a first step towards the medium-term sustainability of this type of product.
Nexolub is offering the opportunity to offset its carbon footprint through carbon credits, which are then converted into sustainable energy…
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Pipelines
Hy2gen plans to produce green ammonia as a fuel for the maritime sector.
The company specialising in designing, building and operating facilities to produce green hydrogen and green hydrogen-based derivatives, will carry out the work in Sauda, Norway.
The green ammonia production facility, named Iverson eFuels AS, will be owned by Hy2gen, Trafigura and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners…
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Pumps
Wanner International has announced that it can reduce the total energy usage by up to a half for some industries that rely heavily on pumps for their processes with its Hydra-Cell® device.
Wanner provides pumps for a range of industries across the globe, from oil and gas, through to food production and chemical production.
The Hydra-Cell® pump’s true positive displacement action and minimal…
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ABB and Coolbrook have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to commercialise the adoption of Roto Dynamic Reactor (RDR) technology in a bid to significantly reduce GHG emissions in steam cracking plants.
The agreement will unite the two companies’ expertise and create a combined offering of Coolbrook’s novel electrically driven RDR technology and ABB’s integrated, pre-engineered…
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ExxonMobil and SABIC have revealed a successful startup of Gulf Coast Growth Ventures’ world-scale manufacturing facility in San Patricio County, Texas.
The operation includes a 1.8 MM metric tpy ethane steam cracker, two polyethylene units capable of producing up to 1.3 MM metric tpy, and a monoethylene glycol unit with a capacity of 1.1 MM metric tpy.
“We built this state-of-the-art…
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Bedford Pumps has provided two of their fish friendly pumps to a chemical plant in Runcorn in the UK to aid in the chemical process.
INOVYN ChlorVinyls, part of INEOS, is Europe’s leading producer of vinyls and manufactures in eight countries across Europe.
Their Runcorn site which focuses on the production of chlorine, caustic soda and chlorinated derivatives, produces chemicals for a wide…
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CropEnergies and Johnson Matthey have entered into an engineering, license and technical services agreement for a plant to produce renewable ethyl acetate from sustainable ethanol.
This will take palce near CropEnergies’ production site in Zeitz, Germany.
Using Johnson Matthey technology, the renewable ethyl acetate produced by CropEnergies will reduce the fossil carbon footprint of a wide…
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Ørsted and Liquid Wind have reached an agreement over an e-methanol project.
Ørsted will acquire a 45% ownership share of Liquid Wind AB’s FlagshipONE facility.
FlagshipONE is a late-stage development project and could become the world’s first large-scale sustainable e-methanol project.
Liquid Wind plans to establish a series of facilities across Sweden to decarbonise the maritime…
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Neste has successfully concluded its first series of trial runs processing liquefied waste plastic at its Porvoo refinery in Finland.
After kicking the series off with its first-ever industrial scale trial run with liquefied waste plastic in 2020, Neste has conducted additional runs in 2021. Neste has been able to upgrade liquefied waste plastic to drop-in solutions for plastic production and…
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Indonesia is set to start work on 22 petrochemicals projects that will conclude in 2025 - mainly driven by strong demand for plastics and fertilisers.
Out of the 22 projects expected to commence operations in Indonesia, four will be methanol projects, followed by three polypropylene projects.
Among the upcoming methanol projects in Indonesia, the Air Products Bengalon Methanol Plant project…
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Shell is planning to build a new renewable chemicals plant in Singapore.
The new plant on Pulau Bukom will also be a 550,000 tonnes a year sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility using hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO).
A final investment decision is to be made on the plan, which will use hydrogen made from renewable sources and waste biofuel feedstocks such as used cooking oil and animal…
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Hive Hydrogen and Linde have announced the establishment of a 780,000 tonne/year $4.6 billion (€4.1 billion) green ammonia plant.
The plant will have its own dedicated power supply at the Coega Special Economic Zone alongside the Port of Ngqura in South Africa.
There is massive surge in demand for ammonia globally to meet current agricultural and chemical requirements.
Thulani Gcabashe,…
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Pipelines
Worley is moving to the construction phase on the expansion of ExxonMobil’s petrochemical project in Texas.
The Baytown chemical expansion project will include a linear alpha olefins (LAO) unit and a solution polymer unit (SPU).
The LAO unit will have an estimated production capacity of around 350,000 tonnes a year.
Worley has completed the engineering and procurement phases of the…
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