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Kent has been awarded a contract by MorGen Energy to deliver Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCm) services for their West Wales 20MW green hydrogen plant located at Milford Haven.
The development is among the first electrolytic hydrogen projects in the UK to secure a production contract under the UK Government's Hydrogen Production Business Model (HPBM), through the Low…
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Neste has successfully commissioned its new upgrading facility for liquefied waste plastic (LWP) at its Porvoo refinery in Finland.
This €111 million investment marks a major milestone in the scale-up of chemical recycling, enabling the production of high-quality feedstock for the plastics and chemicals industry. With an annual capacity to process up to 150,000 tons of liquefied waste…
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Clariant has announced the successful completion of a collaborative pilot-scale project with Borealis, a leading provider of advanced and circular polyolefin solutions, and SINTEF, one of Europe's largest independent research organisations.
The partnership successfully demonstrated Clariant's pyrolysis oil (pyoil) upgrading technology, marking a significant milestone in advancing circular…
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Hundreds of employees have been informed that their jobs are at risk at ExxonMobil’s Fife facility, as the petrochemical giant prepares to shut down part of the site.
The company has confirmed that the Fife Ethylene Plant (FEP) at Mossmorran will close in February, ending more than 40 years of ethylene production. ExxonMobil said it would begin a full consultation process with staff ahead of…
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Clariant has announced remarkable results from its Climate Campaign for nitrous oxide abatement at Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited's (GNFC) facility in Gujarat, India.
The installation of Clariant's EnviCat N2O-S catalyst has shown outstanding performance since October 2024, with monitoring data demonstrating significant reduction in N2O emissions equivalent to 44,000…
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Nitrogen pump manufacturer Prior Power Solutions has broken into the fast-growing South American oil and gas market.
The Great Yarmouth, Norfolk-based company, which was formed over four decades ago, has exported one of its 180k nitrogen pumps to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
The pump is the latest product to be included in Prior Power Solutions’ rental fleet, a division of the business set up in…
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LyondellBasell announced an investment to expand propylene production capacity at its Channelview Complex near Houston.
Groundbreaking and construction are expected to begin in the third quarter of 2025, with a projected startup in late 2028.
The unit will have an annual propylene production capacity of approximately 400 thousand metric tons, employ 750 people during peak construction and…
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Sabic has announced the closure of its petrochemical site in north-east England.
The Saudi Arabian firm, one of the world's largest petrochemical manufacturers, will shut its Olefins 6 cracker plant in Wilton, Teesside, after 46 years of it operating.
The exact number of job losses is not yet known but the firm currently employs 330 people at the site, the BBC reported.
Sabic said its decision…
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Nationwide Boiler Inc. has highlighted its 150,000 pph High-Pressure Saturated Steam Boiler and the 110,000 pph High-Pressure Superheated Steam Boiler.
These watertube boilers are engineered to meet the demanding needs of the chemical processing facilities, all while meeting stringent emissions and efficiency standards.
The 150,000 pph Saturated Steam Boiler delivers an exceptional…
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OMV officially inaugurated its flagship ReOil® and electrolyser facilities at the Schwechat refinery near Vienna.
The proprietary ReOil chemical recycling plant converts hard-to-recycle plastics into virgin-quality products, driving circularity and reducing environmental impact.
The new 10 MW electrolyser facility has a production capacity of up to 1,500 tons of green hydrogen annually and…
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Maire has announces that its subsidiaries Tecnimont, KT-Kinetics Technology and Nextchem and have been granted new awards for a total amount of approximately $3.5 billion (€3.3 billion) for engineering and procurement and construction activities related to petrochemical and hydrotreating projects, as well as high value engineering services for a waste to chemical project.
These projects-…
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ExxonMobil has purchased several shipments of naphtha for its newly launched petrochemical complex in southern China, Reuters has reported.
The complex, based in Dayawan Petrochemical Industrial Park of Huizhou, Guangdong province, is one of the few mega petrochemical plants in China wholly-owned by a foreign investor that are designed to produce high-end petrochemical products.
The ExxonMobil…
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TotalEnergies has signed agreements with Air Liquide to develop two projects in the Netherlands, for the production and delivery of some 45,000 tons a year of green hydrogen produced using renewable power developed by TotalEnergies (50%) and RWE (50%).
These projects will cut CO2 emissions from TotalEnergies’ refineries in Belgium and the Netherlands by up to 450,000 tons a year.
The two…
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Wood has been selected to provide operations and maintenance solutions for MTR Carbon Capture at the world’s largest membrane-based carbon capture plant in Gillette, Wyoming.
The facility, which is based at the Wyoming Integrated Test Centre (ITC) and managed by the University of Wyoming, is part of the US Department of Energy’s large-scale pilot carbon capture programme which aims to…
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Samsung E&A has received a Letter of Award (LoA) for the EPC of the TA'ZIZ Methanol Project.
The contract value is $1.7 billion (€1.64 billion), with a contract duration of 44 months.
This project includes the construction of a methanol plant with a production capacity of 1.8 million tons per annum at the TA'ZIZ chemicals and transition fuels ecosystem being developed in the Ruwais…
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NH3 Clean Energy has completed the engineering component of its preliminary-front-end engineering and design (pre-FEED) for its flagship WAH2 clean ammonia project in Western Australia.
The technical work has been completed in collaboration with Petrofac Asset Solutions Australia as lead engineer, and Topsoe A/S as core technology provider.
Pre-FEED technical work has involved considerable…
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Enerkem has announced that Repsol has officially approved the Financial Investment Decision (FID) for the Ecoplanta project - marking a significant milestone in the drive for the supply of sustainable fuel and product.
Repsol's Ecoplanta project will leverage Enerkem's cutting-edge technology to transform non-recyclable municipal waste into sustainable methanol which can be used as a raw…
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