Rhône Energies has entered into a sales agreement with Esso for acquiring its Fos-sur-Mer refinery as well as its Toulouse and Villette-de-Vienne terminals in France. With this acquisition, Rhône Energies intends to capitalize on the refinery’s existing skilled teams and strong manufacturing performance.

Verdagy collaborated with Shell to successfully complete a rigorous safety review along with a detailed design and technology development review of Verdagy’s electrolyzers. These electrolyzers claim to provide the lowest levelized cost of hydrogen by combining high current densities, the widest operating range in the industry and fast response, to enable seamless coupling with renewable power sources.

The Finnish research institutes VTT and GTK together with industrial partner organizations are launching the pioneering research project Hydrogen Underground (HUG) focused on underground storage of hydrogen. This initiative represents the first public hydrogen storage endeavor of this scale in the country.

With an aim to manufacture advanced and energy efficient Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cells for clean hydrogen production, Topsoe will be setting up a factory in Virginia, USA. The move follows the company receiving nearly 136 million dollars in federal Section 48C tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act.

With a total investment of 240 million dollars, Invista Nylon Chemicals (China) has successfully completed the expansion of its nylon 6,6 polymer site at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in China.

Siam Cement Group - Cement and Green Solution Business, one of the largest cement manufacturers in Thailand have awarded JGC Corporation with a pre-feasibility study for a CCU facility in Thailand.

Process excellence — Fette Compacting has been scoring points in the market for a long time. Now the market leader in tablet presses is going through a reinvention and presenting itself to the pharmaceutical, nutrition and chemical industry as a process partner for powder formulation and tableting. Why this is the way forward for the machine manufacturer?

Honeywell has entered into a MOU with The Green Solutions Group Corporation for Vietnam's first green hydrogen plant – the Tra Vinh Green Hydrogen project. Under the terms of the contract, Honeywell will bring to the project its technologies such as project automation design and management, and energy management for energy transition to enable the firm integrate renewable energy sources into the green hydrogen plant.

OMV Petrom has plans to develop two green hydrogen production plants at the Petrobrazi refinery in Romania. With a total capacity of 55 MW, the plants will be established with a total investment amount of approximately 140 million euros.

International partners BP, Mitsui, Shell and Total Energies have each been awarded a 10 % stake in Adnoc’s low-carbon Ruwais liquefied natural gas project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. A signing ceremony was recently held to mark the occasion.