On Wednesday, a fire occurred in the North plant section of BASF's Ludwigshafen site. This resulted in a leak of methyldiethanolamine and oxogas.

Shell’s latest annual LNG Outlook stated that global LNG trade increased to 360 million tons in 2020 and is set for growth as global economies recover from the global pandemic.

The new Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) will be installed at Borealis’ polyolefins plant in Porvoo, Finland by 2023. With this move, the company aims to lower CO2 emissions, energy consumption, and flaring at its facilities.

Under the terms of the agreement, Linde will build, own and operate the new liquid hydrogen infrastructure in South Korea. This also includes the construction of a liquid hydrogen facility which will have a capacity of over 30 tons per day.

The process and packaging technology provider, Syntegon Technology, recently installed the first fully validated visual inspection system utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in an automated inspection machine.

The board members of the ‘9th Conference on CO2-based Fuels and Chemicals’ have shortlisted six technologies for the show’s innovation award ‘Best CO2 Utilisation 2021’. Three winners will be announced at the virtual conference which will be held from March 23-24, 2021.

Located in Anyang, China, the new CO2-to-methanol plant will recycle 160,000 tons of CO2 per year. Foundation work for the project is currently ongoing and methanol production will commence this year.

Air Liquide has developed a new 20 MW PEM electrolyzer which is now producing up to 8.2 tons per day of low-carbon hydrogen in Bécancour, Québec, Canada. The electrolysis unit is equipped with the Cummins technology and is expected to meet the growing demand for low-carbon hydrogen in North America.

Yara International, Statkraft and Aker Horizons have entered into a partnership to establish Europe’s first large-scale green ammonia project in Porsgrunn, Norway. The mega project is expected to accelerate the green energy transition in the region.

With an aim to support large-scale renewable hydrogen production in France, Air Liquide has acquired stake in H2V Normandy which intends to create a large-scale electrolyzer complex of up to 200 MW for the production of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen in the country.