Under a purchase agreement signed between the two parties, Gevo will supply its low-carbon intensity fuel blendstock to Shell Global Solutions Deutschland for use in motorsports.

BP and Iberdrola have announced a final investment decision to develop a 25 MW green hydrogen project at BP's Castellón refinery in Spain. The project has secured funding of 15 million euros from the Spanish Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan, with funding allocated by Nextgeneration EU.

The global technology intelligence firm ABI Research has predicted that the CCUS market will increase from 4.89 billion dollars in 2024 to 8.04 billion dollars in 2030 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 8.7 %.

Tecnimont has bagged a construction contract for Ta’ziz’s 1 million tons per annum low-carbon ammonia production facility in Al Ruwais Industrial City, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Construction for the project is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2024, with operations scheduled to commence in 2027.

Evonik has revealed that it plans to substitute up to 40 % of natural gas at its German sites with alternative energy sources in the background of a looming Russian gas stop. The firm’s Marl site, which is its largest German site, is currently in the process of using LPG to generate energy.

Shell has decided to temporarily pause on-site construction at its biofuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam in the Netherlands. With an expected capacity of 820,000 tonnes a year, the project has been put on hold to address project delivery and ensure future competitiveness given current market conditions.

PPG has recently launched the PPG Pitt-Therm 909 spray-on insulation coating for the oil and gas as well as infrastructure industries. The unique aspect about this silicone-based coating is that it can withstand high-temperature environments.

A Final Investment Decision has been made by Shell to develop a carbon capture project at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park, Scotford in Alberta, Canada. Apart from this, it will also develop a carbon storage hub to provide permanent underground storage for CO₂ captured by the carbon capture project.

Covestro will supply methylene diphenyl diisocyanate that is based on ISCC Plus certified mass balanced bio-circular raw materials and features up to a 99 % lower product carbon footprint than fossil-based MDI to Carlisle.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of June 2022’ from all over the world. Right from Oman developing its first waste-to-hydrogen facility to Europe starting up an e-cracking furnace experimental unit, find out all the projects making headlines here.