Exxon Mobil’s affiliate Imperial Oil has plans to produce 20,000 barrels per day of renewable diesel at a new complex at Canada’s Strathcona refinery. The complex will make use of locally grown plant-based feedstock and hydrogen with carbon capture and storage to meet the low-carbon fuel standards.

In the background of growing demand, Lanxess will expand its production capacity for light-color sulfur carriers at its Mannheim site in Germany. The additional capacity is expected to strengthen the firm’s market position in extreme pressure additives for the lubricants industry.

The ‘MACBETH’ project aims to develop technologies that make important large-scale reactions, such as hydroformylation, significantly more energy efficient. Claimed to be the largest EU-funded research project coordinated by Specialty Chemical Company Evonik, the project has the potential to revolutionize large-scale reactions in the chemical industry.

Chevron, Itochu Corporation, Hyzon Motors and Ascent Hydrogen Fund have invested 20-million-dollars in Raven SR. Raven SR’s technology is capable of producing hydrogen fuel compliant with SAE J2719 (the international specification of hydrogen fuel cells) and high-quality synthetic fuels such as sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

Claimed to be the largest potassium-fluoride-based plant for halogen exchange (Halex) reactions in the Western world, the Weylchem Group will construct the new facility at its Allessa site in Frankfurt-Fechenheim, Germany.

Under an alliance agreement signed between KBR and Petron Scientech Inc. (PSI), KBR will be the exclusive licensor for PSI’s Ethylene Oxide / Ethylene Glycol, Alcohol Dehydration and Maleic Anhydride technologies, which are used to convert ethanol into ethylene.

Lummus Technology has announced the successful start-up of its Cdalky alkylation unit at Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical’s refinery in China. The project is claimed to be one of the largest alky units in the world.

Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) has awarded the largest catalyst management agreement in its history to Advanced Refining Technologies (ART). Under the contract, ART will supply its Resid Hydrocracking catalyst technology to Bapco’s oil refinery in order to boost its processing capacity from 267,000 (b/d) to 380,000 (b/d).

The Emirati company Helios plans to build the Gulf state's first commercial plant for CO2-free ammonia in Abu Dhabi. Engineering planning for the green hydrogen-ammonia project has been entrusted to Thyssenkrupp.

The Japanese company Itochu will use blue ammonia to produce fertilizers. Fertiglobe, a joint venture firm between OCI and Adnoc, produces blue ammonia at its Fertil plant in the Ruwais Industrial Complex in Abu Dhabi, UAE and the cargo is the first to be sold from the UAE to a Japanese customer.