Emerson’s Asco 141 Series Advanced Redundant Control System is claimed to be the only safety system in the industry with individual valve isolation for online maintenance without process interruption.

With biofuels growth plans and the start of a basic engineering phase of a next generation biorefinery, UPM Biofuels is planning to significantly increase their capacity. The potential biorefinery would have an annual capacity of 500,000 tonnes of high-quality renewable fuels including sustainable jet fuel.

Especially for rough industrial processes Leybold introduces the uncomplicated, dry rough vacuum Clawvac pump. Besides food processing, packaging and environmental technology applications, it is suitable for drying and sterilization processes. The company also offers with the Clawvac System series a new multiple pump system. These systems are based on Clawvac and offer a redundant plug-and-play solution.

The global council aims at accelerating the energy transition with hydrogen and has recently welcomed 17 new members to the council, thus taking the total count to 109 companies. The new member companies include CF Industries, Sabic, Solvay, Uniper, Acme, Black & Veatch, Petronas, Reliance Industries, and many more.

The aim of the Align-CCUS project is to utilize CO2 in order to reduce CO2 emissions. As a part of this project, a water electrolysis plant has been established by Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz who was responsible for planning, procurement, assembly and commissioning of the unit.

In 2020, the Port of Antwerp witnessed a fall in chemical demand; crude oil throughput also fell by 60 % due to reduced refining activities in the background of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Greenergy has plans to invest in Front End Engineering Design of a project to produce low-carbon transportation fuels from waste tires. The new facility is expected to process up to 300 tons of shredded tires each day to produce low-carbon fuels in the first phase. A second independent plant could also be set up to produce sustainable aviation fuel.

Monolith Materials has selected KBR’s ammonia technology for its fertiliser project in Hallam, Nebraska, USA. The project is expected to use hydrogen as feedstock from Monolith Materials’ emission-free facility to produce carbon black and ammonia from natural gas, air and 100 % renewable power.

The United States oil and gas rigs in operation have reduced by 59.49 %, according to data by Bankr, a portal for finance and investment. The portal’s research also provided an insight into the future outlook of the oil industry.

Saudi Aramco placed a tender for building of a gas processing plant at Uthmaniyah (etsimated project costs around US $ 500 million). The Uthmaniyah-project shall produce Gas Liquids like ethane, propane and butane from natural gas.