The new biomethane plant Bionorrois is Total Energies’ 8th biomethane production unit in France. Cristal Union which is a partner in the project and 10 % shareholder will provide beet pulp to the biomethane plant.

Nextchem has recently launched its new high-tech engineering center – NX Engineering District in Catania, Sicily, Italy. The new center in Catania will employ more than 200 highly skilled engineers and technicians to develop technological solutions for the energy transition.

OMV has launched an innovative plant that can process up to 16,000 metric tons of hard-to-recycle mixed plastic waste annually. The company’s proprietary Reoil technology will be used for this purpose and is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by up to 34 % compared to plastic waste incineration.

Siemens is driving digital transformation: a new business unit pools key software areas contributing to digitalization of the process industry. Bart Moors, Head of the new unit and Head of Portfolio Management Dr. Uschi Mitsching are focusing on comprehensive support for customers and their plants across the entire lifecycle, regardless of where they join the digitalization journey.

Continued pressure on the Maasvlakte site’s profitability due to global overcapacities, a strong increase of imports from Asia and high costs of European production has forced Lyondell Basell and Covestro to permanently shut down the Propylene Oxide Styrene and Monomer production unit (PO11) in the Netherlands.

Under a binding agreement signed between Plug Power and Allied Green Ammonia, Plug Power will supply 3 GW of electrolyzer capacity to AGA’s green hydrogen to ammonia plant in Australia.

OMV has secured a grant from the EU Innovation Fund for the first time for its planned industrial Reoil plant. The facility is expected to process up to 200,000 metric tons of used plastics and will make use of OMV’s proprietary Reoil chemical recycling technology to convert the recycled material into sustainable base chemicals.

ABB has entered into a MOU with Bilfinger with an aim to collaborate on instrumentation and digital solutions in order to boost operational efficiencies in the energy and process industries.

Adnoc and OMV have plans to combine Borouge and Borealis to establish a new firm, Borouge Group International. The newly formed company is also expected to acquire Nova Chemicals for 13.4 billion dollars, thus establishing the world’s fourth-largest polyolefins player.

Calling all industries to decarbonize, decarbonize and decarbonize. We are living in a world where decarbonization is no longer an option but a core necessity. Although there are many industrial projects that have made headlines for decarbonizing their operations but we take a look at three upcoming mega projects that can be considered as landmark projects of recent times.