KBR has secured a Front-End Engineering Design contract from the BUA Group for its new refinery in Nigeria. The upcoming facility will support fuel production for Nigeria's domestic and regional markets, thus reducing the country’s dependence on imports.

Indonesia’s state-owned oil and gas corporation Pertamina has collaborated with Clariant to assess the feasibility of the latter’s sunliquid technology to convert regional feedstocks into advanced biofuels. Such kind of advanced fuel technology solutions are important to meet the growing demand of ethanol in the country.

Maire Tecnimont has bagged the EPCC contract from the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) for a new Para-Xylene plant along with its associated offsites facilities in Odisha, India. Once complete, the new facility is expected to have a capacity of 800,000 tons per year.

Technip Energies has declared the launch of BlueH2 by T.Entm which is the company’s full suite of deeply-decarbonized and affordable solutions for hydrogen production. The green solutions prove useful for refining, ammonia production as well as support diverse industries such as steel, cement, power, olefins and LNG.

Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex technology has been selected by Anchorage Investments to produce 750,000 metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene for its new Anchor Benitoite petrochemicals complex in Suez, Egypt.

They call it a breakthrough technology. Borealis announced the start-up of a heat recovery unit based on the revolutionary Qpinch technology. Is this a Milestone in open-innovation collaboration to reduces CO2 emissions and increases production efficiency? Borealis Experts want to prove it for the first time on a commercial scale in a polyolefin plant.

The Eramet group and Electricité de Strasbourg have collaborated and successfully announced the first pilot test which was able to extract lithium from geothermal brine in Alsace, France. The move is considered to be a major step forward for the European Geothermal Lithium Brine (Eugeli) project.

PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim has selected Lummus Technology’s ethylbenzene, styrene monomer, ethylene dimerization and olefins conversion technologies for the expansion of its olefins production facility in Nizhnekamsk, Russia.

Jointly owned by Clariant and Beijing Tiangang Auxiliary Co. (Tiangang), the new production facility is based in Cangzhou, China. With this plant, Clariant aims to expand its presence in the Asian country.

Thyssenkrupp Uhde has secured an order from Sedin Engineering Co. to build and supply four new low-emission, stamp-charged coke oven batteries for Hohhot Risun China Gas Energy Co. in China. With a total annual capacity of 3.9 Mio tons, the coke oven batteries will include Thyssenkrupp’s proprietary Envibat technology as well as the Cokemaster automation system.