Total Energies has collaborated with Air Liquide to decarbonize Total Energies’ refining and petrochemical platform in Normandy. Under the terms of the agreement, Air Liquide will supply green and low carbon hydrogen to the project.

Tecnimont has been given the go ahead to begin engineering works for Kima’s fertilizer project in Egypt. Full EPC activities are expected to begin by the end of June. The overall value of the EPC contract is 300 million dollars.

Adnoc has acquired a 10.1 % equity stake in Storegga, a company that focuses on the development of global carbon capture and storage projects. This is Adnoc’s first international equity investment in carbon management.

Fluor has been awarded a front-end engineering and design contract by Swedish sodium-ion battery maker Altris for the world’s first industrial-scale sodium-ion battery production facility in Sandviken, Sweden. Feed completion is scheduled for early 2024.

For the first-time, AGC has used hydrogen as a fuel in a demonstration test for glass production. The test was carried out at the electronics float glass manufacturing facility of the Kansai Plant, Takasago Factory in Japan.

At the recently held global climate event COP 28 in Dubai, UAE, Sinopec highlighted the progress made by the company on carbon, capture, utilization and storage.

Under the terms of the collaboration, Pactiv Evergreen will offer certified-circular polypropylene packaging products to its customers which have been produced by Exxonmobil’s advanced recycling technology.

The first shipment unloaded 7,500 tons of used cooking oil which will be used by Repsol for its new renewable fuels plant which is claimed to be Spain’s first renewable fuels plant.

Michelin, Ifpen and Axens have recently inaugurated what it claims to be the first industrial-scale demonstrator of a plant producing bio-based butadiene from bioethanol. The demonstrator is built at Michelin’s site in Bassens near Bordeaux in France.

Lyondell Basell's innovative Moretec technology has secured a 40 million euro grant from the EU Innovation Fund. The funds will boost the establishment of an advanced, fully-electrified recycling plant in Wesseling, Germany