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Oil and Gas News
Sep 16, 2022
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Hynion's hydrogen station at Høvik has just completed its busiest month ever.
The sales of hydrogen fuel for private cars and taxis have more than doubled since the turn of the year. The increased demand for hydrogen has even created queues for filling up hydrogen cars.
Hynion has also significantly improved the fuelling station's capacity by installing a new and... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 12, 2022
Pumps
Shell and Raízen have signed a cooperation agreement for the production of renewable hydrogen from ethanol.
The additional partners include Hytron, a subsidiary of the Germany based Neuman and Esser Group; the University of São Paulo and the Centro de Tecnologia da Indústria Química e Têxtil.
The partnership aims to validate the production technology through the... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 12, 2022
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Bureau Veritas (BV) has awarded an approval in principle (AIP) to Gas and Heat (GH), a company specialising in the design, construction and integration of liquefied gas handling systems both for marine and onshore installations.
GH supported by the BV team demonstrated that IMO Type C cargo/fuel tanks made of austenitic steel with a special grade can transport both LNG... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 9, 2022
Pumps
Sulzer has received an order for five more high pressure water injection pumps (HPcp) having already delivered 11 HPcps to a site off Guyana.
This delivery will help support the largest floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in Guyana’s Stabroek block.
Guyana has some of the world's biggest offshore discoveries made in years, with 10 billion barrels... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 8, 2022
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A new pilot plant for EasyMining’s nitrogen removal and recovery process at Denmark’s largest wastewater treatment plant has begun operations.
The facility at BIOFOS’ Lynetten is built within the LIFE RE-Fertilise project, a partnership between BIOFOS, Lantmännen, Ragn-Sells and EasyMining and co-financed by the EU’s LIFE Programme.
When nitrogen is extracted... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 1, 2022
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Keppel Infrastructure announced plans to build a $537 million (€537 million) 600MW hydrogen-powered advanced combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant.
The Singapore-based firm said this was going to be the country's first hydrogen-ready power plant when completed in the first half of 2026.
The firm's subsidiary Keppel Energy will use Japan's Mitsubishi Power... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Aug 31, 2022
Pumps
The German medium-sized company Stiebel Eltron expects to produce a record 80,000 heat pumps - an increase of 60% compared to the previous year.
The company is planning further investments of more than €600 million as production capacities will be expanded, research and development financed, and new jobs created.
"We have specialised in electricity-powered heat pump... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Aug 2, 2022
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German energy services provider EWE is building an underground hydrogen storage facility.
Hydrogen will be stored in a cave around 1,000 metres deep in the salt rock beneath Rüdersdorf, near Berlin.
This will be the first time 100% pure hydrogen will be stored in this way.
EWE aims to study how this environmentally friendly energy carrier called HyCAVmobil (Hydrogen... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Aug 1, 2022
Pumps
The UK is set for another major heat network after a new Bedfordshire-based project received £16.9 million (€20.1 million) in funding from the Government’s Heat Networks Investment Project.
Vital Energi will deliver the new project which will take waste heat from the Rookery South Energy Recovery Facility and distribute this to nearby homes and commercial buildings.
Nick... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Jul 19, 2022
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Carbon Clean, a global leader in cost-effective carbon capture solutions, has awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract to global engineering experts KBR for a new carbon capture project.
This facility will be built at at CEMEX’s Rüdersdorf plant in Germany.
KBR will provide FEED services for the initial stage of the project which aims to develop and... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Jul 15, 2022
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The Swedish Energy Agency is providing SEK 61.4 million (€5.8 million) as a grant to Hynion Sverige AB for two robust high-capacity hydrogen stations that will be located in Västerås and Jönköping.
The stations will have a capacity of 1,500 kg hydrogen per day and be built to facilitate the trucks that now will be phased in.
“This is an important step forward... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Jul 11, 2022
Pumps
BASF and MAN Energy Solutions have entered into a strategic partnership to pursue the construction of an industrial-scale heat pump facility.
This be based at the BASF site in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and the project intends to cut greenhouse gas emissions, establishing the use of low-CO2 technologies in chemical production and reducing the site’s natural gas consumption.... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Jul 1, 2022
Pumps
Sulzer has supported Fulcrum BioEnergy to complete the construction of a commercial-scale production plant that will convert municipal solid waste (MSW) into renewable transportation fuels.
The plant will convert approximately 175,000 tons (159,000 tonnes) of MSW into approximately 11 million gallons (41.6 million liters) of renewable synthetic crude oil (syncrude) per... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Jun 23, 2022
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A new furnace capable of running on hydrogen has arrived at Liverpool Port.
The furnace, which is part of a multimillion-pound investment by Essar Oil UK (EOUK), is heading for Stanlow in Ellesmere Port and will become the first hydrogen-powered furnace of its kind in the UK.
It is a vital piece of kit to support the decarbonisation of Essar Stanlow’s operations.
The... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Jun 16, 2022
Pumps
Sulzer has been selected by Shell to supply pumps for its major new biofuel facility under construction in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Sulzer’s pumps will support critical processes at the facility, including providing boiler feedwater to drive the steam turbine generator.
Expected to become one of the largest biofuels production sites in Europe, the Shell Energy... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Jun 15, 2022
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Wärtsilä will supply its Puregas CA50 biogas upgrading plant for a Green Gas Mill project in the UK designed to turn grass into gas that can be used to heat homes.
The project is being headed by Ecotricity, a British energy company dedicated to fighting climate change by ending the use of fossil fuels. The order with Wärtsilä was placed in April.
When operational... [Read More]