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Members of the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) have agreed to invest in initial services to develop carbon capture at the Edmonton EcoPark in the UK.
NLWA is constructing a new Energy Recovery Facility as part of the North London Heat and Power Project.
The new plant will use waste as a resource to generate efficient, low-carbon heat and power for local homes and the country’s…
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Maire Tecnimont’s subsidiary NextChem has been awarded a Pre-FEED engineering services contract by MadoquaPower2X.
The Portuguese/Dutch/Danish consortium led by Madoqua Renewables along with CIP’s Energy Transition Fund and Power2X aim to develop and operate an integrated renewable hydrogen and green ammonia plant located in Sines, Portugal.
The purpose of the Pre-FEED engineering…
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Concerns have been raised that possible sabotage could have been behind the leaks discovered at two gas pipelines linking Russia and Europe in the Baltic Sea.
European leaders believe this to be the case after seismologists reported explosions around the Nord Stream pipelines.
European commission president Ursula Von der Leyen said the Nord Stream II leaks were due to “sabotage”, and…
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Essar Oil UK has announced it has signed an offtake agreement with Vertex Hydrogen for the supply of 280MW of hydrogen.
The hydrogen will then be used to help decarbonise Essar’s existing production facilities including the new hydrogen powered furnace which was delivered in August.
Vertex, a joint venture between Essar and Progressive Energy, is developing the first large scale, low carbon…
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TotalEnergies has been selected as the first international partner in the 16 Mtpa North Field South (NFS) LNG project.
This follows its selection as the first partner for the 32 million ton per annum (Mtpa) North Field East (NFE) liquefied natural gas (LNG) project.
TotalEnergies will obtain a 9.375% participating interest in the NFS project – out of a total 25% interest available for…
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Maire Tecnimont announced that its subsidiary NextChem has been assigned a €194 million grant for the development of a waste-to-hydrogen plant as part of the IPCEI Hy2Use EU project.
The Hydrogen Valley project in Rome, is the first industrial-scale technological hub for the development of the national supply chain for the production, transport, storage and use of hydrogen for the…
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KBR has signed an engineering agreement with Giammarco-Vertrocoke to license its carbon capture technology globally.
This carbon capture technology is energy efficient and can be integrated across the value chain for blue ammonia, petrochemical, and refining industries.
"We are excited to enter into this agreement with Giammarco-Vetrocoke, as it enables us to integrate and deploy critical…
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INEOS and its partners in the Solsort Unit, Danoil and Nordsøfonden, have agreed on a final investment decision on the Solsort West field in the Danish part of the North Sea after getting approval from the Danish Energy Agency.
The Solsort development consist of two wells.
The oil and gas will be produced via the Syd Arne installation operated by INEOS and the first oil and gas is expected in…
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The UK Government has lifted the moratorium on shale gas production in England to bolster the UK’s energy security.
The Government has confirmed its support for a new oil and gas licensing round, expected to be launched by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) in early October.
The administration said it was pursuing all means for increasing UK oil and gas production, including through…
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A natural gas pipeline connecting Spain to France has increased its capacity by 18%.
The two countries are currently connected by two gas pipelines, via the Pyrenees, which can carry gas from Spain to its neighbour to the north.
The interconnector which passes through Irun has successfully completed the technical start-up tests to increase capacity by 18% over current levels, which…
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The German government is to nationalise the country's biggest gas importer, Uniper, as the war in Ukraine has seen a huge spike in energy prices.
Uniper's nationalisation will add another €8 billion ($7.9 billion) to its rescue as the German government scrambles to secure power for Europe's largest economy after Russian supply cuts.
Nationalising Germany's largest importer of Russian gas is…
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Amogy Inc. and Trafigura have announced an agreement to study the use of ammonia as a carrier to transport clean hydrogen from point of production to consumption.
The findings of this joint research on ammonia cracking will help support industry-wide efforts to decarbonise transport and heavy industrial processes and lower carbon emissions to meet global climate goals.
Trafigura deploys…
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The Department of Energy will offer additional US reserve crude for sale ahead of plans by the European Union to ban most Russian oil in December.
The agency will offer 10 million barrels of low-sulphur crude for supply in November from storage caverns in Texas and Louisiana, according to a press statement.
Bids for the supply that will originate from Big Hill, Texas, and West Hackberry,…
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Hynion's hydrogen station at Høvik has just completed its busiest month ever.
The sales of hydrogen fuel for private cars and taxis have more than doubled since the turn of the year. The increased demand for hydrogen has even created queues for filling up hydrogen cars.
Hynion has also significantly improved the fuelling station's capacity by installing a new and powerful…
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The UK Government is exploring the development of innovative low-carbon technologies such as hydrogen, while a 5GW national capacity target for hydrogen will be doubled to 10GW.
Through the Government’s UK Export Finance, a £400 million (€456 million) sustainability-linked loan has been underwritten and given to Johnson Matthey, a London-based conglomerate company specialising in chemicals,…
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Mitsui Chemicals has asked Shell Catalysts & Technologies (SC&T) for its Shell S-896 catalyst, which will to provide important economic benefits from raw material ethylene savings.
It will als help the organisation meet the decarbonisation goals for their ethylene oxide (EO) refinery in Osaka, Japan.
This announcement builds on more than two decades of work between the two…
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Texas LNG Brownsville has executed an agreement with Technip Energies USA and Samsung Engineering to lead the delivery of a new LNG facility via a joint venture.
This is for a 4m tonnes per annum LNG export terminal to be constructed in the Port of Brownsville, Texas owned by Glenfarne Group.
Technip Energies, a leading technology and global engineering, procurement, construction and project…
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Shell and Raízen have signed a cooperation agreement for the production of renewable hydrogen from ethanol.
The additional partners include Hytron, a subsidiary of the Germany based Neuman and Esser Group; the University of São Paulo and the Centro de Tecnologia da Indústria Química e Têxtil.
The partnership aims to validate the production technology through the plants, designed to produce…
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