Honeywell has named John Gugel as president of Honeywell UOP. Prior to his current role, Gugel served as vice president and general manager of the company's Process Technology and Equipment business, and prior to that, held the same role as head of the Gas Processing and Hydrogen business.

Oxychem plans to ramp up its production in Geismar, Louisiana: The American company has announced intends to invest some US $ 145 million in a new production line for next-generation refrigerants.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute Stuttgart have developed self-propelled tiny ‘microbots’ that can remove lead or organic pollution from water.

Exxon Mobil, with partner Fuel Cell Energy, is advancing technology with the aim of improving CCS efficiency, effectiveness, and affordability for large natural gas-fired power plants.

Technip was awarded a contract to provide project management by Air Products. The contract includes engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for a new industrial gas complex for Bharat Petroleum Corporation – Kochi Refinery (BPCL-KR) located in the state of Kerala, India.

Because of low crude oil prices, times are hard for bio-based chemicals as they can rarely compete with their fossil counterparts pricewise and cannot even play a trump card in the matter of climate change. Nevertheless, industry and academia are developing bio-based processes fervently and with the prerequisite that the products must not be more expensive than conventional ones.

Praxair announced that it has renewed and expanded a long-term contract to supply hydrogen to Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas.

Hydrogen specialist Air Products breaks ground for a world-scale steam methane reformer (SMR) at Covestro’s Baytown facility in Texas. The already sold-out site shall be connected to world’s largest hydrogen plant and pipeline system…

Kuraray, PTT Global Chemical, and Sumitomo, on July 11, 2018, held an opening ceremony for a joint venture company, Kuraray GC Advanced Materials in Thailand.

Petronas and Evonik Industries signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to jointly embark on the development of production facilities of specialty chemicals within Petronas’ Refinery & Petrochemical Integrated Development (Rapid) project in Pengerang, Johor/Malaysia.