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BCCK Holding Company (BCCK) has partnered with Kaizen Clean Energy (KCE), a leading developer of hydrogen and “energy as a service” solutions, to develop pre-engineered solutions for hydrogen fuelling and power generation.
Under this agreement, BCCK, an engineering, procurement, fabrication, and field construction service firm, will design and manufacture methanol to hydrogen reformers…
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Yorkshire Water’s new £50 million (€59 million) recycling facility has installed a digester mixing system by Landia.
By using this mixing system, the Huddersfield Energy and Recycling Facility ensures that total gas production can reach its anticipated 22,192 normal cubic metres (Nm3) per day. Two CHP engines produce peak electrical output of 2,390 kWh and a thermal output of 2,404…
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Linde has signed an agreement to supply high-purity industrial gases to a leading semiconductor manufacturer in Singapore.
Linde will build, own and operate a state-of-the-art SPECTRA generator to produce ultra-high-purity nitrogen and oxygen for the customer's new multi-billion-dollar semiconductor fabrication plant.
The new SPECTRA plant is expected to start up in late 2022.
This agreement…
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Honeywell has revealed a portfolio of solutions and services to help end users harness hydrogen as an alternative fuel in industrial and commercial thermal processes.
Honeywell’s end-to-end offering comes at a time when many firms are seeking to enact or tighten programmes that decrease their greenhouse gas emissions.
Honeywell has developed and tested a large portfolio of hydrogen fired…
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Phillips 66 and H2 Energy Europe have announced their commitment to develop up to 250 retail hydrogen refuelling stations across Germany, Austria and Denmark by 2026.
Phillips 66 has a strong retail presence with more than 1,000 JET®-branded stations in Europe and a growing hydrogen refuelling network in Switzerland through its participation in the Coop Mineraloel AG joint…
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Essar Oil UK, a leading UK-focused downstream energy company, has announced plans to install a new £45 million (€53 million) furnace at Stanlow that’s capable of using hydrogen as its fuel source - a UK first.
This marks another significant milestone in Essar’s continued commitment to becoming the UK’s first low carbon refinery. It follows the launch of Vertex Hydrogen last month, a…
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AUMA’s electric actuation technology is helping to boost green energy in Taiwan.
A total of 40 AUMA actuators have been installed at Qingshui - Taiwan’s first new-generation geothermal power plant.
Qingshui power plant is located in northern Taiwan in the geothermally very active Yilan area.
Water is extracted at a temperature of 180 °C from a depth from 1,200 to 2,100 metres.
The…
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Oil giant bp has reported its highest profit for eight years.
bp posted a profit of $12.8bn (€11.2 billion) for 2021, as the oil and gas company reported an update on its strategic transformation.
BP chief executive Bernard Looney said: " “Over the past two years we have set a new purpose, direction and strategy for bp, and completed the largest re-organisation in our history. With this…
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Petrobras has reached an average of 88% of total load factor of its refineries in the last three months of last year.
In early February, the Brazil oil and gas major reached close to 90%.
Operational decisions in refining take into account that, for each barrel of oil processed in the refinery, necessarily, several products are generated and subsequently distributed.
For example, when…
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A possible cyber-attack has resulted in IT systems being disrupted at oil transport and storage facilities across Europe.
The Oiltanking in Germany, SEA-Invest in Belgium and Evos in the Netherlands have all suffered disruptions in recent days.
According to the BBC, Belgian officials are probing the cyberattack that's affected SEA-Invest terminals including the company's largest in Antwerp,…
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Carbon Mapper scientists have identified oil and gas facilities emitting significant amounts of methane in sporadic bursts.
The new research found plumes covering vast areas, sometimes stretching to 200 miles.
Last year, about 100 countries promised to cut methane emissions by 2030.
Led by the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement with the analytics firm Kayrros, Duke…
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The Net Zero North West and the North West Hydrogen Alliance has responded to the UK government’s Levelling Up White Paper.
They argue this will have implications for industrial decarbonisation, clean growth and building a hydrogen economy in the region.
The North West Hydrogen Alliance brings together some of the region’s largest and most innovative organisations, each bringing a unique…
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Kent has been awarded engineering work for the V Net Zero (VNZ) Project by Harbour Energy - the UK’s largest independent oil and gas company.
The project will store CO2 from the Immingham SuperPlace, located in the Humber region, the UK’s most energy-intensive industrial area, and could help decarbonise more than 50% of the area’s industrial emissions.
John Kent, chief energy transition…
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Russian gas operator Gazprom is set to start-up westbound gas flows from Poland to Germany from the Yamal pipeline.
This will restore the normal flows after the route was reversed in December and sent gas prices in Europe to all-time highs.
Gazprom booked transit capacity of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline for eight hours, Reuters reported.
The pipeline, which usually accounts for about a sixth…
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Elkem has secured 100% ownership of the Elkem Salten energy recovery plant, after acquiring the remaining 50% stake from Kvitebjørn Energi.
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre opened the new energy recovery plant at Elkem Salten in the northern part of Norway last November.
The energy recovery plant is closely integrated with the silicon production process at Elkem Salten, utilising the excess…
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Jacobs has been awarded a feasibility study contract from renewable energy company RWE to investigate the production and supply of green hydrogen in South Wales, UK.
The four-month study will look at the feasibility of initially installing a 100 MW electrolyser at RWE’s Pembroke Power Station to produce green hydrogen. “This feasibility study provides us with an opportunity to work…
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Shell has started operations at a new power-to-hydrogen electrolyser in China.
The operation in Zhangjiakou is a joint venture between Shell China and Zhangjiakou City Transport Construction Investment Holding Group.
The plant, one of the world’s largest hydrogen electrolysers, has started production of green hydrogen.
The electrolyser will provide about half of the total green hydrogen…
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Hunting Energy Services has successfully project managed and transported about 6,100 metres of casing to the Eden Geothermal site.
The company has provided engineering, manufacturing and logistics expertise to the Eden project in the UK. This is Hunting’s first endeavour into the UK geothermal market, with the intention of expanding further into the European geothermal marketplace.
A total…
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