India is planning a $2 billion (€1.9 billion) incentive programme for the green hydrogen industry in a bid become a major exporter in the field and to cut emissions. The incentive aims to reduce the production cost of green hydrogen by a fifth over the next five years, said a senior government official and an industry manager working in renewable energy, Reuters reported. The... [Read More]

Chevron is among a group of multinational companies looking at the US Gulf Coast as a central hub for the development of hydrogen and ammonia. The company is working with Air Liquide, LyondellBasell and Uniper to study the potential for a hydrogen and ammonia production facility. The three companies have zeroed in on the area because the existing energy infrastructure... [Read More]

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) supplier Flogas Britain has completed a deal with North Sea Midstream Partners Limited (NSMP) and Exolum. The deal will see up to 120,000 tonnes of LPG turned inland at Teesside from October 2023. The deal is set to boost the resilience of off-grid energy across the north of England and Scotland, providing security of supply to homes and... [Read More]

Fulcrum BioEnergy has successfully produced a low-carbon synthetic crude oil using landfill waste as a feedstock at its Sierra bioFuels plant - the world’s first commercial-scale landfill waste-to-fuels plant. This achievement positions Fulcrum as a renewable fuels leader producing and selling net-zero carbon fuel. “This accomplishment is a watershed moment for... [Read More]

An explosion has killed three people and several damaged a gas pipeline in central Russia on December 20. The blast has also limited the amount of Russian gas that is reaching the rest of Europe, Euractiv reported. The flow of gas through a section of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline that takes gas from Russia’s Arctic to Europe via Ukraine had been halted in the... [Read More]

Topsoe has been chosen as technology provider to Ascension Clean Energy (ACE) as part of an industrial scale low carbon hydrogen-ammonia joint venture. The project by Clean Hydrogen Works (CHW), Denbury Carbon Solutions and Hafnia aims to deliver the 7.2 million metric tons of clean ammonia annually. ACE will use Topsoe’s integrated hydrogen and ammonia solutions,... [Read More]

Sulzer Chemtech is using its advanced separation technologies to enable the world’s first commercial scale e-methanol plant constructed by European Energy. The innovative facility in Kassø, Aabenraa, Denmark will produce 32,000 metric tonnes of carbon neutral fuels per year, helping to decarbonise the heavy transportation sector. European Energy is applying an innovative... [Read More]

Alfa Laval will supply pre-treatment systems, consisting of various equipment such as separators, heat exchangers, pumps and agitators for a US-based renewable fuels and petroleum refining company. The agreement is with a subsidiary of CVR Energy and the aim is to supply processing systems for feedstock pre-treatment, part of a strategic investment in the refinery supporting... [Read More]

OCI announced that construction is starting on a new blue ammonia facility to come onstream in Texas. The groundbreaking puts the project on track for production to begin as scheduled in 2025. The project also received its air permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) on 1 December. The project’s site is adjacent to OCI’s existing integrated... [Read More]

Turbine flowmeters are still showing growth even though they are not keeping pace with the rapid growth in the new-technology markets, according to a new study by Flow Research. The World Market for Turbine Flowmeters, 3rd Edition found that the worldwide turbine market totaled $420 million (€394 million) in 2019 and forecasts a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of... [Read More]

Oman’s state-owned energy company OQ is to look into producing green ammonia and green methanol under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with A.P. Moller-Maersk, Japan’s Sumitomo and Omani logistics provider Asyad. The $463 million (€434 million) plant project has a designed capacity of 1,000 metric tonnes per day (MTPD) of ammonia and is fully integrated with... [Read More]

Shell Catalysts & Technologies has entered into an agreement with Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) to test a technology for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2). The test will start in January and will last for five months. Shell Catalysts & Technologies offers two leading carbon capture technologies - the CANSOLV CO2 Capture System and ADIP ULTRA. The test at TCM will... [Read More]

According to a new report, the UK is trailing behind its European counterparts in cutting its gas usage in the wake of the energy security crisis. The independent analysis by academics from Imperial College London for Drax Electric Insights, commissioned via Imperial Consultants, showed that the UK’s gas reduction year-on-year was outpaced by Germany, France, Italy,... [Read More]

Sarawak Shell has agreed to sell its stake in two offshore production sharing contracts (PSC) in the Baram Delta to Petroleum Sarawak Exploration and Production. The sale by the subsidiary of Shell concerns non-operated interests of 40% in the amended 2011 Baram Delta EOR Production Sharing Contract and 50% in the SK 307 Production Sharing Contract. The remaining interests... [Read More]

The EU Commission announced it will grant Air Liquide, Fluxys Belgium and Port of Antwerp-Bruges €144.6 million under the Connecting Europe Facility for Energy (CEF-E) funding programme. The funding is earmarked for the construction of shared CO2 transport and export facilities on the Antwerp port platform. The grant award is a major step towards the final investment... [Read More]

bp has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Egypt to explore the potential for establishing a new green hydrogen production facility in the country. The MoU was signed by bp, Egypt’s New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA), the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC), the General Authority for Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE)... [Read More]