The front-end engineering and design (Feed) contract has been awarded by California Resources Corporation. Cal Capture, the carbon capture and sequestration project will be developed at a 550-MW plant in California, USA.

Allthough the low oil price troubles the US shale industry, chemicals giant BASF continues its plants for a propylene Megaplant in the US: The company has chosen Freeport., Texas, as the site for its latest methane-based propylene complex.

Celanese (Nanjing) Chemical has extended its contract with Nanjing Chengzhi Clean Energy Co. Under the terms of the agreement, the carbon monoxide feedstock will be supplied to Celanese’s acetic acid plant in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province.

Located in the USA, Evonik’s new technology center for 3D printing will prove vital for the development of new, ready-to-use materials for powder bed fusion manufactured by the Structured Polymers technology.

Weighing 3,025 tonnes and a height of 72 meters, the world’s largest hydrogen reactor was installed by China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) in Zhoushan, China on June 10. The reactor is the core element of Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical’s 40-million-tonne/year refining-chemical integration project, phase II.

Unipetrol will resume operations at its chemical facility in Litvínov, Czech Republic after a two-month-long planned operational turnaround. To curtail the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic during the turnaround period, the company also undertook diverse safety, hygienic and anti-epidemic measures.

Claimed to be the world’s largest green hydrogen project, the Neom project in Saudi Arabia will use Haldor Topsoe’s ammonia technology to convert hydrogen into 1.2 million tonnes per year of green ammonia.

Under a Strategic Cooperation Agreement, Thyssenkrupp will supply its technology, specific engineering, equipment and technical services to the water electrolysis plants which will be developed to produce green hydrogen. The water electrolysis plants will be built, owned and operated by Air Products.

As energy grids become increasingly renewables led, Dow and Shell intend to work together to develop an innovative E-cracker technology which aims to electrify ethylene steam crackers and thus, decarbonise the chemicals industry.

Wacker is expanding its existing vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions production facilities in the United States. The Munich-based chemical company will add a new reactor with an annual capacity of 85,000 metric tons at its Calvert City site, investing an amount of around €50 million in the site’s capacity and infrastructure.