BASF and OMV have worked together on an innovative and sustainable technology for producing high-purity isobutene. The novel technology has now been installed at OMV´s new ISO C4 plant in Burghausen, Germany.

The ECB Group will use Honeywell UOP’s Ecofining process to produce renewable diesel and jet fuel at the Omega Green production facility in Villeta, Paraguay. The plant is the country’s first advanced biofuels project.

Eni’s new biomass treatment unit was launched 18 months ago and has recently started production. Located in Gela, Italy, the plant will make use of raw material waste to produce biofuels.

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 Chinese company Guangzhou Tinci Materials Technology (Tinci) has selected Lanxess to produce electrolyte formulations for its lithium-ion batteries. Production will be carried out at Lanxess’ high-tech plant in Leverkusen, Germany.

The new compressed biogas plant will be set up at Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, India and will use Praj’s Rengas technology to produce compressed biogas (CBG) from rice straw. The project is expected to process 35000 MT of rice straw as feedstock in order to generate 5250 MT of CBG every year.

The new green ammonia facility will make use of Haldor Topsoe’s proprietary solid oxide electrolyzer cells (SOEC) to produce green hydrogen from 100 MWs of renewable electricity. The project is expected to be operational by 2024.

As part of the plant’s maintenance turnaround, Invista recently completed the technology upgrade of its Victoria plant in Texas, USA with the most advanced adiponitrile (ADN) technology. The move is expected to increase ADN production and further support growth in downstream nylon 6,6 applications.

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.

Engineering company KBR has been awarded contracts for revamping two ammonia plants by PJSC Acron Group, Novgorod, Russia.