A project to create a vast new underground stormwater storage tank is progressing well in Nelson in the UK. When complete, the tank will be 20 metres deep and 15 metres wide and hold almost 2,000 cubic metres of storm water. It will give Pendle’s sewer system additional capacity during times of heavy rainfall, and help to further improve water quality in nearby Pendle... [Read More]

Clariant Catalysts has teamed up with Evonik and thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions (tkIS) in a major propylene oxide project. Qixiang Tengda is one of the leading global producers of carbon-four chemical products, such as methyl ethyl ketone and maleic anhydride. Expanding into the carbon-three value chain, the company’s new propylene oxide plant in Zibo city, Shandong... [Read More]

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... [Read More]

Synova, SABIC Global Technologies and Technip Energies have signed an agreement to collaborate on a new plant development which will produce olefins and aromatics from plastic waste. The plant will use a combined technology developed by Synova and T.EN and will be integrated with one of SABIC’s steam crackers. The new plant will contribute to SABIC’s vision of closing... [Read More]

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... [Read More]

LanzaTech NZ and Sumitomo Riko have entered into a joint-development agreement to reuse rubber, resin and urethane waste for the production of a key chemical intermediate - isoprene. Using synthetic biology for this new path to isoprene, LanzaTech’s nature-based platform, has the potential to produce a new sustainable source of rubber through recycling, without losing... [Read More]

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... [Read More]

A strong performance on innovation has put Northumbrian Water at the top of the annual water company performance survey carried out by British Water. British Water‘s annual UK Water Company Performance Survey asks contractors, consultants and suppliers to rate their clients’ performance in 11 areas, including innovation, professionalism, contractual approach and procurement.... [Read More]

Valve World is currently taking place in Germany with 385 exhibitors from 29 countries occupying some 12,000 square metres of net exhibition space. The players in the industrial fittings and valve sectors will demonstrate that not only are their products indispensable to the industry as a whole, but also that their production is sustainable in terms of energy efficiency... [Read More]

Shell Petroleum has acquired 100% shareholding of Nature Energy Biogas for nearly $2 billion (€1.9 billion). Nature Energy, based in Denmark, is a producer of renewable natural gas (RNG) from agricultural, industrial and household waste. By purchasing the shares in Nature Energy, Shell will acquire the largest RNG producer in Europe, its portfolio of cash generative... [Read More]

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... [Read More]

Technip Energies and Baker Hughes have announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that sets the groundwork for a 1-2 million tons per annum (MTPA) liquefied natural gas (LNG) modularised solution for the onshore market. With the ambition to reduce time- to-market for LNG to meet today’s energy demand, this joint development aims to provide an additional offering... [Read More]

A special version of the GEMÜ R480 Victoria butterfly valve series from Ingelfingen-based valve specialist GEMÜ has been approved with immediate effect for the medium of oxygen. In the design for the medium of oxygen, all media wetted seal materials and auxiliary materials (lubricants and screw locking agents) from the Victoria butterfly valve series have been tested... [Read More]

Dr Jesse Yoder, president of Flow Research, has written a two-book set called Advances in Flowmeter Technology for CRC Press that discusses the history, operating principles, growth factors, representative companies, and frontiers of research for all 10 types of flowmeters. The first volume, New-Technology Flowmeters, released on September 6 will be followed by the second... [Read More]