EU chemicals trade has shrunk this year, as the coronavirus pandemic has spread and lockdowns have restricted industrial activity and consumer goods demand.

Under a new purchase agreement signed between both the parties, Neste will supply up to 160,000 metric tons of SAF over the next three years to United flights at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. With this move, United has become the first U.S. airline to make an international purchase agreement for SAF.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of March 2022’ from all over the world. Right from Exxon Mobil constructing one of the world’s largest CCS projects in USA to an Aramco JV establishing a mega refinery and petrochemical complex in China, find out all the projects making headlines here.

ABB has secured a contract by Plug Power to supply electrical systems to two hydrogen plants in New York and Georgia respectively. On completion of the project, the plants are expected to produce 60 tons of green hydrogen daily.

Perstorp Group will be acquired by Petronas Chemicals for a whopping figure of 2.3 billion Euros. The move is in line with Petronas’ aim of accelerating its sustainability ambitions to achieve circular economy and carbon neutrality by 2050.

A new ethylene complex from Lyondell Basell and its Chinese joint venture partner has officially been put into operation. The petrochemical complex has started manufacturing the first end products with an annual capacity of 1.1 million tonnes of ethylene at the Panjin site in the northern Chinese province of Liaoning.

Industrial gases company Air Products announced that its subsidiary Air Products San Fu recently brought two new air separation units onstream. The project is part of the long-term agreements to provide ultra-high purity industrial gases to one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers in Asia.

Pertamina, PT Pupuk Indonesia, and Mitsubishi Corporation have collaborated under an agreement to develop the green hydrogen and green ammonia value chain and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) businesses in Indonesia. The move is in line with the country’s aim of reducing emissions by 29 % by 2030.

Keynes Planungsgesellschaft is a German engineering and construction services company operating since the 1960s, focusing on all phases of plant planning. These range from maintenance projects covering the replacement or repair of small numbers of pipelines to larger projects involving upgrades and equipment retrofits and associated piping to even more complex, large-scale projects involving 500 to 3,000 pipelines. This case study focuses on the transition and Keynes’ experience of moving from PDS to Hexagon’s Cadworx Plant Professional software.

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