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Haldor Topsoe has become the latest member of Hydrogen Council to promote green hydrogen solutions.
The Hydrogen Council is a platform for enabling the energy transition through partnerships and is a CEO-led initiative of companies with a united vision and long-term ambition.
Topsoe membership of the council will accelerate Power-to-X solutions for the hard-to-abate sectors.
Topsoe is the…
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Valmet will deliver automation to the Baltics’ first biogas plant fired with household and commercial biowaste.
Built by BioWOIMA Finland Oy in Tallinn, Estonia, it will produce biomethane for the natural gas network and fuel for compressed natural gas-powered vehicles.
The order is included in Valmet’s orders received of the fourth quarter 2021. The delivery will take place in May and the…
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The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has increased its forecast for global oil demand in the first quarter substantially.
OPEC boosted estimates for consumption in the period by 1.1 million barrels a day -- equivalent to annual world consumption growth in a typical year before the pandemic -- according to a monthly report from the group’s research department.
“The impact…
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Phillips 66 has announced that its capital programme for the year ahead will total of $1.9 billion (€1.7 billion).
The plan includes $992 million (€876 million). for sustaining capital and $916 million (€809 million) for growth capital. Approximately 45% of growth capital supports lower-carbon opportunities.
“The 2022 capital program demonstrates our commitment to disciplined capital…
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Tranter has received an order for several NovusBloc welded plate heat exchangers for a refinery expansion project in North America.
The project was engineered and procured by an American-based Global EPC-Contractor focusing on on-shore and off-shore oil and gas projects.
Tranter’s scope of supply includes a number of NovusBloc heat exchangers in different sizes that will be made of both…
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ExxonMobil said it was boosting its spending on greenhouse gas emission reduction projects to $15 billion (€3 billion) over the next six years and anticipates meeting its 2025 greenhouse gas emission-reduction plans by the end of this year.
The energy giant said funds will go toward projects focused at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from existing operations and increased investments in the…
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Woodside Petroleum and BHP Group have agreed the merger of BHP’s oil and gas portfolio with Woodside.
Woodside will acquire the entire share capital of BHP Petroleum International in exchange for new Woodside shares.
On completion, the merger will create a global top 10 independent energy company by production and one the largest energy companies listed on the ASX.
Woodside CEO, Meg…
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The UK could miss out on millions in investments and tens of thousands of jobs in the next 10 years unless the Government raises its hydrogen production targets, according to an industry report.
More than three-quarters of respondents to Hydrogen Strategy Now’s State of the Hydrogen Nation survey said the 5GW hydrogen production target set out in the PM’s Ten Point Plan is not ambitious…
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The American Gas Association (AGA), American Petroleum institute (API), Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), and Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) have urged Congress to withdraw a new tax on natural gas.
The new tax has been branded as a ‘methane fee’ from the proposed budget reconciliation bill.
“Make no mistake, our industry supports methane…
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Mammoet has been installing 100 components for a Linde plant’s gasification facility upgrade at Jurong Island, Singapore.
The items to be installed included pipe racks, rotating equipment (turbines, generators), e-containers, columns and reactors.
Overall, Mammoet employed a range of equipment to support this facility upgrade, including a CC8800-1 Boom Booster, CC2800-1, CKE2500 and 110…
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Armstrong Fluid Technology has emerged victorious in the Project of the Year category at the prestigious Pump Industry Awards 2020/2021.
Held at the Chesford Grange Hotel, Kenilworth on 23 September, the Pump Industry Awards recognised companies that have demonstrated excellence in the design and implementation of fluid flow technology.
Founded by the BPMA in 2000, the awards programme…
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Stanlow Oil Refinery could be shut down as urgent discussions were being held with tax officials.
Bosses from the oil refinery in Ellesmere Port are in discussions with HMRC over a £356 million (€417 million) VAT bill, several UK based newspapers reported.
However, a spokesman for the parent company Essar said it has already repaid HMRC £547 million (€641 million) leaving a balance of…
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Aramco has announced a major expansion of its industrial investment programme with the signing of 22 new Memoranda of Understandings (MoUs).
The agreements focuses on capacity building in four key sectors - sustainability, technology, industrial and energy services and advanced materials.
Aramco Namaat, which mean means collective growth in Arabic, aims to tap into the new opportunities…
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An explosion at a chemical park on July 27 shook the western German city of Leverkusen injuring several employees and sending a large black cloud rising into the sky.
The explosion happened at around 9.40am on Tuesday in a part of the site where waste is incinerated, a statement from the operators of the Chempark site said.
It has been reported several employees were injured in the blast, at…
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Oil Refineries, Israel’s largest refining and petrochemicals group, plans to invest $1.5 billion (€1.27 billion) to become a cleaner energy company.
Israel has proposed shutting a major industrial zone in the coastal city of Haifa that health officials say has been hazardous for years and turning it into an eco-friendly commercial hub.
Oil Refineries said it will focus on green hydrogen and…
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The downstream oil sector - the supplier of 96% of the UK’s transport fuels – said it was committed to working with the UK Government to decarbonise the transport system following the release of the Transport Decarbonisation Plan (TDP).
The announced changes to the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO), will see a steady increase in renewable fuel content blended in fuels throughout…
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The total consumption of fossil fuels in the US including petroleum, natural gas, and coal, fell to 72.9 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) last year.
This was down 9% from 2019 and the lowest level since 1991.
Last year marked the largest annual decrease in US fossil fuel consumption in both absolute and percentage terms since at least 1949, according to the Monthly Energy Review.…
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Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA has started producing two upgraded crude grades for domestic refining.
PDVSA's 1.3 million-barrel-per-day capacity refining network and US sanctions have led to intermittent scarcity of cooking gas, petrol and diesel, making the nation more dependent on imports.
Following the restart of a key upgrader in June, operated by the Petrocedeno joint venture,…
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