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NextChem, a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont, has been awarded a Front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by a market leader in plastics and chemicals for an advanced mechanical recycling plant for municipal plastic waste in Europe.
The aim of the project is to establish an advanced mechanical recycling plant for polyolefins, which shall manufacture products containing up to 100% post-consumer…
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Anglian Water in the UK has submitted proposals for a major pipeline across Lincolnshire to meet future water shortages.
The planned 57 km pipe would move water from North Lincolnshire to the southern part of the county where rainfall is more scarce.
The water company said the pipeline’s importance “cannot be understated” and is “critical in helping us secure water supplies across our…
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Algeria, Nigeria and Niger have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a natural gas pipeline across the Sahara desert.
The three countries agreed in June to revive decades-old talks over the project, a potential opportunity for Europe to diversify its gas sources, Reuters reported.
Algeria's energy minister Mohamed Arkab revealed after the signing ceremony that the three countries will…
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Southern Water in the UK is introducing a Temporary Use Ban (TUB) for its customers in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to protect these rivers.
One of our region’s driest years for a century and highest ever temperatures have caused a drought that threatens to damage the precious habitats of the River Test and River Itchen.
The extremely hot weather and reduced rainfall alongside…
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Clariant announced its second quarter and first half year results where continuing operations sales were CHF $1.301 billion, compared to CHF $1.032 billion in the second quarter of last year.
This corresponded to an increase of 29% in local currency, 25% of which was organic, and 26 % higher sales in Swiss francs.
For the fifth sequential quarter, both pricing and volume growth…
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Shell Nederland and Shell Overseas Investments have taken the final investment decision to build Holland Hydrogen I.
This facility is set to be Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen plant once operational in 2025.
The 200MW electrolyser will be constructed on the Tweede Maasvlakte in the port of Rotterdam and will produce up to 60,000 kilograms of renewable hydrogen per day.
The renewable…
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Green hydrogen firm Tree Energy Solutions (TES) announced it has successfully concluded its second fundraising round at €65 million.
This new capital will enable TES to accelerate the clean energy transition by building the world’s largest hydrogen projects by 2030.
The fundraising attracted a global investor base comprising leading financial institutions and international energy…
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A joint venture between TotalEnergies and Borealis will result in the start-up of commercial operations of a new ethane cracker.
Bayport Polymers LLC will have an annual production capacity of 1 million tonnes of ethylene.
The $2 billion (€1.98 billion) project built on the site of and operated by the TotalEnergies Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, represents 14 million hours worked with more…
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Clariant catalyst chosen for anhydride plant
Clariant has been awarded a major contract by Wanhua Chemical Group to supply catalysts for its new maleic anhydride plant - one of the largest in the world.
Designed to produce 200 kilotons of maleic anhydride annually, the plant will rely on Clariant’s SynDane catalyst for the production process.
The facility will be located in Yantai city,…
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Russia has restarted gas supplies to Europe through its biggest pipeline - Nord Stream I after the completion of a 10-day maintenance break.
There had been growing concerns Moscow would not resume the flow in response to EU sanctions over the war in Ukraine.
The European Commission has urged countries to cut gas use by 15% over the next seven months in case Russia switched off Europe's supply.…
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Morrison Water Services has secured a place on a wastewater multiple supplier framework to deliver services that will help Thames Water meet its performance targets for pollution, flooding and blockages.
The firm, which is part of M Group Services’ Water Division, will be delivering reactive and planned complex works, responding 24/7 to resolve wastewater network failures, where replacement…
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Following three years of successful service by Landia aeration units at one of the UK’s most popular holiday parks, a leading water and wastewater asset management company has introduced an additional unit to one of its customer’s other sought-after destinations.
As well as for the holiday parks it works with, the asset management company has also brought in Landia’s aeration equipment to…
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BASF has given its final approval for the construction of the planned Verbund site in Zhanjiang in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.
The project is on schedule and will now focused on building the core of the project, which includes a steam cracker and several downstream plants for the production of petrochemicals and intermediates, among others.
BASF will invest up to €10 billion…
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Clean Power Hydrogen (CPH2) that has developed the Membrane-Free Electrolyser (MFE) has signed its first licence agreement with GHFG.
This is for the construction of two gigawatts of MFE electrolysers over a period of up to 20 years.
GHFG is a joint venture between international renewable independent power producer, Alternus Energy Group Plc and Eric Whelan, CEO of Irish based developer,…
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Oxford Flow is celebrating headcount growth of 80% over the last 18 months as the company eyes international expansion across EMEA, India and the Americas.
The flow control equipment specialist for energy, water, and industrial process industries, which currently works in the US, UK, the Middle East and APAC, has invested heavily in both workforce development and product R&D to support gas…
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TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory is urging businesses within the oil and gas industry to take advantage of funding offered by Innovate UK as part of its Analysis for Innovators (A4I) programme.
The next competition for grant funding opens in August, with a second opportunity expected in November.
A4I gives UK companies of any size access to the UK’s top scientists and most advanced…
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Carbon Clean, a global leader in cost-effective carbon capture solutions, has awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract to global engineering experts KBR for a new carbon capture project.
This facility will be built at at CEMEX’s Rüdersdorf plant in Germany.
KBR will provide FEED services for the initial stage of the project which aims to develop and deploy Carbon Clean’s…
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Neste has become the first Finnish company to be granted IPCEI (Important Project of Common European Interest) status by the European Commission, which enables national public funding for its clean hydrogen projects at Porvoo refinery.
The Commission's approval is part of the EU's first wave of IPCEIs on hydrogen, which aims to develop and accelerate the production and use of clean hydrogen in…
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