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The Prince of Wales opened J V Energen’s new CO2 capture facility near the Duchy of Cornwall’s Poundbury development in Dorset where green CO₂ is supplied to their new joint venture business BioCarbonics.
The gas is captured from a full-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) and biomethane-to-grid plant, to produce a clean, sustainably sourced product for use by local businesses.
The CO2…
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Italy's Snam SRG.MI has ordered its first supply of steel pipes fully certified to take up to 100% of hydrogen for its natural gas transport network in Italy.
Europe's biggest gas pipeline operator said it had signed a contract with Cenergy Holding’s Corinth Pipeworks for 440 kilometres of pipes.
The new high-pressure pipes will be used to replace old ones that Snam is retiring along its…
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The US has successfully retrieved the majority of the $4.4m (£3.1m) ransom paid to a cyber-criminal gang responsible for taking the Colonial Pipeline offline last month.
DarkSide - which US authorities said operates from eastern Europe and possibly Russia - infiltrated the pipeline bringing chaos to supplies across the country.
The pipeline carries 45% of the East Coast's supply of diesel,…
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TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory (NEL) has launched a joint industry project (JIP) that will support regulatory authorities and industry to establish new standards and practices for the use of online oil-in-water analysers at remote locations.
The outcome from the JIP will provide the confidence needed by the industry and regulatory authorities in using online oil-in-water analysers…
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Air Liquide Engineering and Construction will build a methanol production plant for Sarawak Petchem.
The state-owned oil and gas firm’s Malaysian facility is planned to come into operation in 2023.
The methanol plant, which will be located in Bintulu, will produce 5,000 tons of the gas per day based on Air Liquide Engineering and Construction proprietary process technology, Lurgi…
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Trafigura and Yara International have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the development of ammonia production as a clean fuel.
This collaboration will be in shipping while the two will explore opportunities to work together on clean ammonia fuel infrastructure and market opportunities.
Both Yara and Trafigura have taken steps towards making the transition to a greener…
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Air Liquide Engineering and Construction has signed a contract with Zeeland Refinery, a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Lukoil, to provide a carbon capture and liquefaction solution in the Netherlands.
Cryocap Flue Gas (FG) is a solution that can capture more than 90% of the emissions from hydrogen production and will contribute to the decarbonisation of the Vlissingen site by capturing…
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Iran has started moving crude oil via the Goreh-Jask pipeline that passes by the Strait of Hormuz to Jask in the Gulf of Oman.
Here the oil will be loaded at the port on tankers for export. The first shipment has reached its final destination, Iran’s state-owned Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
The 620-mile pipeline will be officially opened later this year by President Hassan…
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The technology group Wärtsilä will supply a biogas liquefaction plant to Norway-based Biokraft.
The company is a subsidiary of the Scandinavian Biogas Group and a major player in the global biogas market.
The 25 tons per day capacity plant will extend an existing bioLNG production plant at Skogn in Norway, also supplied by Wärtsilä, to a combined total of 50 tons per day making it by far…
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A gas pipeline between Greece and Bulgaria aimed at helping Sofia wean off Russian gas has hit another delay and will not become operational until June 2022.
The coronavirus pandemic and need for additional environmental assessment for a crossing under a dam in the Bulgarian stretch had delayed the construction of the pipeline, the ICGB company, which runs the project, has said.
The €240…
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Tanzania and Uganda have signed an agreement for the construction of a $3.5 billion (€2.8 billion) oil pipeline from western Uganda to the coast of Tanzania.
The East-African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project will be a 1,443 kilometer-long (897 miles) pipeline expected to transport oil from Uganda to the Tanga port in Tanzania.
Total’s subsidiary, Total East Africa Midstream is the…
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Waga Energy has been chosen by the Mauricie Residual Materials Management Board (RGMRM) to deploy its gas upgrading solution at a landfill in Quebec, Canada.
The green gas produced at the Saint-Étienne-des-Grès landfill will be purchased by Energir, the largest gas distribution company in the province, and injected into its on-site gas grid. This project will be the first in Canada to use the…
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Azerbaijan has increased natural gas transportation through main gas pipelines by 10.8% during the period of January to April.
Around 12.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas were transported via main gas pipelines during the first four months of the year, Azertag has reported.
The South Caucasus Pipeline, or the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline, accounted for 48.1% of natural gas transportation.…
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Integrity assurance specialists Hydratight has partnered with adhesive sealants and functional coatings firm Henkel to be a provider for their LOCTITE composite repair system for pipelines, tanks and vessels.
The collaborative approach will enable Hydratight and Henkel to help customers avoid unscheduled and expensive plant downtime and increase asset life by delivering efficient and…
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EQTEC plc, a gasification technology solutions company for sustainable waste-to-energy projects, has announced the acquisition and planned recommissioning of a 1MWe waste-to-energy plant in Italy.
Originally commissioned in 2015, the plant is built around EQTEC’s proprietary and patented Advanced Gasification Technology.
The company has acquired, and will lead a consortium to repower, own…
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Colonial Pipeline has begun restarting its largest fuel pipeline network after a ransomware attack shut the line.
It will take several days for the 5,500 mile (8,850 km) pipeline to return to normal operations, Colonial said, with a return to ample supplies taking up to a fortnight.
The cyberattack halted 2.5 million barrels per day of shipments of petroleum, diesel and jet fuel last Friday…
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Fuel and gas supplies in the US continue to tighten due to a major pipeline remaining shut after a cyber-attack five days ago.
Some motorists have been stockpiling as petrol stations began running dry and prices have started to edge up.
The average price for petrol was the highest on Tuesday since November 2014, at $2.98 (€2.46) per gallon, the American Automobile Association revealed.…
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The Zeelink gas pipeline - designed to connect consumers in north-west Germany to the Zeebrugge LNG terminal in Belgium - has started flowing gas.
Zeelink - developed by a joint venture of Open Grid Europe (OGE) and fellow German grid operator Thyssengas - carries high-calorific gas (H-gas) to German consumers that are traditionally buyers of low-calorific gas (L-gas ) from the giant Groningen…
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