Engineering & Design
thyssenkrupp Uhde awarded contract by ENOWA to supply a green methanol and methanol-to-gasoline plant
thyssenkrupp Uhde has been awarded a contract by ENOWA, NEOM’s energy and water company, for engineering services and the supply, design and procurement of equipment for a new CO2-to-methanol and methanol-to-gasoline demonstration plant at ENOWA’s Hydrogen Innovation and Development Center in Saudi Arabia.
Neste sees Singapore green jet fuel sales picking up from Q2 2024
Finland's Neste beat third-quarter core earnings forecasts and said SAF sales from its new Singapore facility would pick up from the second quarter of next year.
Axens, IFPEN, and JEPLAN commence operations at the Rewind PET facility in Japan for PET chemical recycling
Axens, IFPEN and JEPLAN entered into a partnership in 2020 to develop and license an innovative recycling process, called Rewind PET, that can be used to recycle all types of waste Polyethylene Terephthalate, especially those difficult to recycle mechanically.
Petoskey Plastics receives NOL from FDA for food-contact PCR-LLDPE
Petoskey Plastics has received a No Objection Letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirming the capability of its secondary recycling process to produce post-consumer recycled linear, low-density polyethylene material that is suitable for food-contact applications.
China sets minimum size for new refiners as it caps overall capacity
China has set a minimum size for new oil refineries and will ban small crude processors that claim to be chemicals or bitumen producers under its plan to limit total capacity at 1-B metric tons by 2025.
Ireland could start producing sustainable jet fuel from 2030
Ireland's offshore wind power plans could see it produce SAF from around 2030 but "significant progress" is needed to develop SAF at scale.
ExxonMobil licenses fluid bed methanol-to-gasoline technology to Aramco for synthetic fuel demonstration plant in NEOM, Saudi Arabia
ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC has licensed its advanced fluid bed Methanol-to-Gasoline technology to Aramco for a demonstration scale unit to be located in NEOM’s Hydrogen Innovation and Development Center.
Philippines seeks gasoline price cut with higher ethanol blend
The Philippine government aims to lower domestic pump prices for gasoline by calling for a higher ethanol blend of 20% on a voluntary basis, from the current mandatory 10%.
Vitol to launch specialist biofuel bunker barges in early 2024
Global energy trader Vitol will be delivering specialized bunker barges at Singapore in early 2024, and will be able to offer a range of biofuel blends through its subsidiaries V-Bunkers and Vitol Bunkers.
Grace launches PARAGON FCC catalyst technology for more sustainably produced fuels
W.R. Grace & Co. announced its latest innovation in a long line of breakthroughs in catalyst technology for helping refiners produce transportation fuels and lower their carbon footprint.
- TotalEnergies extends its fuel price cap policy in France until the end of April 4/7
- Navigating the montan wax challenge with renewable alternatives for polymers 4/7
- AFR selects Axens as technology provider for Texas (U.S.) refinery 4/7
- Iran has attacked Saudi Arabia's Jubail petrochemical complex, IRGC says 4/7
- Iran's Marvdasht Petrochemical complex attacked by US and Israel 4/7
- Fluor awarded engineering and design contract for America First Refining's refinery in South Texas 4/7
