On January 28, OCI held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new plant of P&O Chemical, a joint venture with Posco Chemical at the National Industrial Complex in Gwangyang, Jeollanam-do, Korea.

A team of researchers led by scientists from the Interface Science Department of the Fritz-Haber-Institute have found out that the important industrial process of methanol production can be positively influenced if the copper catalyst used in the reaction comes into contact with zinc oxide.

Mc Dermott’s CB&I Storage Solutions business has bagged the contract from New Jersey Natural Gas for a power-to-gas facility in Howell, New Jersey, USA. The new unit will produce green hydrogen from solar energy and will feed it into a natural gas distribution network for diverse applications.

Solvay’s hydrogen platform will offer the polymer membranes technology which is expected to be a vital contributor to the electrolyzer and fuel cells markets. Through this platform, the company also plans to contribute multiple other applications and components to the hydrogen market.

Via the ‘MOL Group 2030+’, the company has updated its strategy for 2030 which now includes a new sustainability strategy aiming to complement the firm’s long-term vision and ambitions beyond 2030.

A Sino-German research team has found a new synthetic pathway to produce biofuel from biomass. Compared to previous methods, they achieved higher yield and selectivity under milder reaction conditions.

Air Liquide has developed a new 20 MW PEM electrolyzer which is now producing up to 8.2 tons per day of low-carbon hydrogen in Bécancour, Québec, Canada. The electrolysis unit is equipped with the Cummins technology and is expected to meet the growing demand for low-carbon hydrogen in North America.

KBR has been selected by Keppel Data Centres to carry out an energy transition study in which the company will have to evaluate scenarios for alternative hydrogen-based energy sources to supply to new data centers in Singapore.

BASF and Siemens Energy have partnered to fast-track the implementation of new technologies – specializing in lowering greenhouse gas emissions – on a commercial scale. Numerous pilot projects will first be studied and then launched at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site in Germany.

With an aim to support large-scale renewable hydrogen production in France, Air Liquide has acquired stake in H2V Normandy which intends to create a large-scale electrolyzer complex of up to 200 MW for the production of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen in the country.