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Topsoe and ExxonMobil have signed an agreement under which Topsoe will deliver its industry leading hydrogen SynCOR™ technology.
This will be supplied to ExxonMobil’s planned low carbon hydrogen production facility in Baytown, Texas.
ExxonMobil’s low-carbon hydrogen, ammonia, and carbon capture facility is expected to generate up to 1 billion cubic feet of hydrogen per day, delivering…
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Hungary plans to cooperate with Croatia to increase the capacity of the Adriatic pipeline that brings non-Russian crude to the country, Reuters reported.
Hungary’s chief of staff Gergely Gulyas said the government had discussed its 2030 energy strategy and this would include enabling Hungarian oil and gas group MOL's Danube refinery to process more non-Russian crude.
Landlocked Hungary in…
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INEOS Olefins Belgium has raised €3.5 billion to support the construction and operation of the most environmentally sustainable cracker in Europe.
This is the largest investment in the European chemical sector for a generation. The plant will have the lowest carbon footprint in Europe, three times lower than the average European steam cracker, and less than half that of the 10% best performers…
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TotalEnergies has announced the start-up of the Deutsche Ostsee LNG import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG).
This project will consolidate TotalEnergies' position as the world's third largest LNG player and Europe's leading regasification player.
Located on the Baltic Sea coast in northeast Germany, the Port of Lubmin took delivery of the country's first floating import terminal for…
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Linde has signed a long-term agreement to supply clean hydrogen and other industrial gases to OCI’s new world-scale blue ammonia plant in Beaumont, Texas.
Linde will build, own and operate an on-site complex which will include autothermal reforming with carbon capture, plus a large air separation plant.
The new complex will be integrated into Linde’s extensive Gulf Coast industrial gas…
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INEOS Inovyn and Statkraft have renewed their long-standing partnership in Norway by signing two new long-term power agreements to supply renewable energy for the Rafnes and Porsgrunn sites.
The first agreement effectively replaces the site’s existing power contract, which will expire in May.
It covers a capacity of 100 MW for an annual renewable energy production of 876 GWh each year.…
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TotalEnergies and Eni have completed the transfer to QatarEnergy of a 30% interest in exploration Blocks 4 and 9 off the coast of Lebanon.
The agreements were endorsed in Beirut on January 29, during a ceremony attended by Walid Fayad, the Minister of Energy and Water of Lebanon; Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Qatar’s Minister of State for Energy Affairs and president and CEO of QatarEnergy; Patrick…
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Australian electrolyser company Hysata has been selected as one of the successful grant recipients for the HyGATE Initiative to support pilot, trial and demonstration projects along the hydrogen supply chain.
Paul Barrett, CEO of Hysata: “We are proud to have the backing of the Australian and German Governments as we rapidly scale-up our high efficiency electrolyser.
“Hysata’s capillary…
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Technip Energies announced signing MoUs with PCL Industrial Management Inc. and Capital Engineering to work on energy transition markets in Canada.
Under the agreement, Technip Energies services will include conceptual, front-end and detailed engineering, procurement, and technical capabilities with PCL.
Technip Energies and Capital Engineering will work together to provide front-end…
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The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the bp-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) liquefied natural gas (LNG) project has started its journey towards the site, off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal.
The FPSO set sail on 20 January from Qidong, China, after successfully completing a series of sea trials following construction over the past three years. It will now…
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Mexican state oil company Pemex's newest refinery, which is still under construction in Mexico's south-east, will begin to process crude oil in July.
The country’s Energy Minister Rocio Nahle said things were "going really well," noting the refinery would begin processing in July, a year after its official inauguration.
The Olmeca refinery, the cornerstone of President Andres Manuel Lopez…
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The EU consumption of natural gas has dropped by 20.1% in the period August-November 2022, compared with the average gas consumption for the same months between 2017 and 2021.
The Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1369 on coordinated demand-reduction measures for gas, part of the REPowerEU plan to end EU dependence on Russian fossil fuels, set a reduction target of 15% for the period August…
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Germany must accelerate a hydrogen law revision to allow for related investments in gas transport networks up to the end of the decade, said the head of the biggest gas pipeline operator Open Grid Europe (OGE).
Gas carriers must prepare for the shift to renewables to complement Germany's plan to produce, import and market clean hydrogen, derived from carbon-free wind and solar power, as a future…
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Multiple oil pipeline outages across western Canada have disrupted petroleum flows to the US and global markets.
Bloomberg reported that two of Canada's largest oil-sands upgrading facilities - Syncrude and Canadian Natural Resources’ Horizon - have dealt with disruptions, causing supply cuts to customers that prompted Enbridge to seek more crude for its Mainline system, which delivers to…
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Evides Industriewater has completed a feasibility study on the supply of demineralised water to large-scale green hydrogen projects.
The study was undertaken using Evides’ existing water supply network at the port of Rotterdam.
Water is the essential ingredient in green hydrogen production - the feedstock that is broken down via electrolysis into its constituent elements of hydrogen and…
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Germany plans to develop a 1,800 kilometre (1,118 miles) hydrogen energy pipeline network by 2027 according to an economy ministry draft strategy paper.
The paper also envisages Germany fostering the use of blue hydrogen and importing it during a transition period towards green hydrogen, Reuters reported.
Europe's largest economy wants to pivot towards cleaner energy sources and diversify its…
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Topsoe has been chosen by Mintal Hydrogen to provide technology for the first green ammonia plant in China.
The plant is Topsoe’s first Power-to-X project in the country and includes its process licensing, engineering design package, proprietary equipment and catalysts.
Dajun Yang, managing director China, Topsoe, said: “We are thrilled to be chosen for this amazing project by Mintal…
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BASF received the ExxonMobil technology qualification for its Durasorb™ Cryo-HRU technology following extensive discussions and technical evaluation.
Durasorb Cryo-HRU is an LNG pre-treatment technology that removes both heavy hydrocarbons (HHCs, including C8+ and BTEX) and water from natural gas prior to entering the liquefaction section of the plant.
Removal of HHCs and water in a single…
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