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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 afternoon following the…
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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 Fulcrum and opens the door…
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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 1.4 million metric ton per…
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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 involve a proprietary…
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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 existing 1 million metric…
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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, and Spain – with demand…
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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 decision, expected next…
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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 in both PSCs are…
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The North West Hydrogen Alliance (NWHA) has further bolstered its ranks with three new members looking at the potential of nuclear to support the roll out of hydrogen in the North West.
TÜV UK, Urenco and the University of Liverpool are the latest to join the NWHA, with their sights firmly set on the role of nuclear power in the production of low carbon hydrogen.
Nuclear power can be used to…
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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) and the Sovereign Fund of…
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Woodside Energy has entered into a gas sales agreement with Qenos for the supply of natural gas from its equity position in Bass Strait in the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria.
The GSA covers the supply of 4.5 petajoules of gas in 2023 for use at Qenos’ polyethylene manufacturing facilities at Altona in Victoria and Botany Bay in New South Wales.
Woodside executive vice president…
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An initiative by 18 companies led by the Port of Rotterdam Authority has kicked off a study into the possible establishment of a large-scale ammonia cracker to enable imports of 1 million tons of hydrogen per year.
The participants have commissioned Fluor to study possibilities for a large central cracking facility in the port area to convert imported ammonia.
The hydrogen can then be used in…
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Pennzoil-Quaker State Company, a subsidiary of Shell, has acquired a 49% interest in Blue Tide Environmental a company focused on building a global network of lubricant recycling facilities.
Blue Tide is owned by Tailwater Capital, a private equity firm that takes an integrated approach to investing in energy and environmental infrastructure solutions.
The company is making progress on a 5,000…
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Germany plans to build an extensive 1,800 kilometre (1,118 miles) hydrogen energy pipeline in the next four years, Reuters has reported.
According to an economy ministry draft strategy paper the country plans to foster the use of blue hydrogen and importing it during a transition period towards green hydrogen.
Europe's largest economy wants to pivot towards cleaner energy sources and diversify…
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Centrica and Ryze Hydrogen are set to jointly build and operate hydrogen production facilities aimed at providing a reliable supply of hydrogen for industry and transportation.
Under the landmark agreement the firms will jointly develop hydrogen production projects on existing Centrica sites and work with third-parties to build production on their sites.
A Memorandum of Understanding has been…
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Essar Oil UK plans to build a £360 million (€41 7 million) major new carbon capture plant at its Stanlow refinery in line with its ambition to become a leading low carbon refinery by 2030.
Essar is investing over £1 billion (€1.15 billion) into a range of energy efficiency, fuel-switching, and carbon capture initiatives, designed to decarbonise its production processes significantly by…
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Oil and gas engineering and carbon capture firm Kent has been awarded a major contract win by INEOS Energy for Project Greensand in Denmark.
Project Greensand works to reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. This is done by capturing CO2 from the emitters, transporting, and storing the CO2 in the subsurface of the North Sea in depleted hydrocarbon fields.
Kent has been selected to conduct…
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bp Trinidad and Tobago LLC (bpTT) has confirmed that its Cassia C development has safely delivered the first gas supplies.
Cassia C is bpTT’s first offshore compression platform and its biggest offshore facility. It will enable bpTT to access and produce low pressure gas resources from the Greater Cassia Area. The platform, bpTT’s 16th offshore facility, is connected to the existing Cassia…
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Manchester Airport has unveiled plans to become the first UK airport with a direct supply of low carbon hydrogen fuel after announcing a partnership with HyNet – one of the UK’s leading Government-backed industrial decarbonisation projects.
The airport has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the two founding partners of HyNet. Progressive Energy, which develops projects to…
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