Yara has signed a contract with Linde Engineering for the construction and delivery of a green hydrogen demonstration plant at Yara’s ammonia production facility at Herøya Industripark in Porsgrunn, Norway.

Asahi Kasei announces that on October 21, 2021, Tongsuh Petrochemical, a wholly owned subsidiary in South Korea, acquired the widely recognized international certification ISCC Plus for its acrylonitrile (AN) as a sustainable product, and production of AN using biomass propylene is scheduled to begin in February 2022.

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in its latest report ‘Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation: The Hydrogen Factor’ elaborates on the new global power dynamics in the background of a hydrogen economy. It also states that green hydrogen has the potential to disrupt global trade and bilateral energy relations with new hydrogen exporters and users.

TechnipFMC has partnered with Petronas to commercialize an innovative natural gas processing membrane technology which is capable of reducing greenhouse has emissions. The technology is claimed to be 30 % more efficient than existing gas treatment processes and can be used in offshore as well as onshore hydrocarbon production environments.

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Tatneft will make use of Versalis’ technologies to develop new rubber plants at its Togliatti industrial site in Russia. On completion, the plants are expected to produce 70 thousand tons of nitrile butadiene rubber and 30 thousand tons of carboxylate styrene butadiene rubber latexes.

With an aim to increase its crude oil production capacity to 5 million barrels per day (mmbpd) by 2030, Adnoc has awarded procurement contracts to leading companies specializing in drilling equipment and services as these are crucial in drilling for oil and gas as well as completing wells. The procurement award for wellheads and related components is worth up to 3.27 billion dollars, making it the world’s largest in this category. In addition, the procurement award for Downhole Completion Equipment and related services is worth up to 2.34 billion dollars, also making it the world’s largest in this category.

Luna Technologies has developed Elara, an automated end-to-end ethanol-based cannabis extractor which is based on the low-temp cryo extraction technology. The extraction system proves useful for high-volume producers and offers increased safety, improves quality, lowers costs, and reduces the overall equipment footprint.

Nuberg EPC has won two contracts from Ethiopia’s International Company for Chemical Industry and Chemical Industry Corporation – Awash Melkassa Chemical Factory and International Company for Chemical Industry (ICCI), Egypt respectively for developing sulphuric acid plants. The company will utilize its advanced Sulphuric Acid technology - Double Contact Double Absorption for both the projects.

With an expected processing capacity of about 55,000 tons of mixed plastic waste annually, the new chemical recycling facility will be the first industrial chemical recycling site at the North Sea Port in Vlissingen, The Netherlands. The plant will be developed under a joint venture by Neste and Ravago and will be based on Alterra Energy’s thermochemical liquefaction technology. With this project, the companies aim to demonstrate and advance the commercialization of chemical recycling.