SK Energy will begin commercial operations for sustainable aviation fuels at its new facility in South Korea next month. The facility will make use of the advanced co-processing technology as well as bio-feedstocks such as used cooking oil and animal fat to produce SAF and other low-carbon products.

Kuwait Oil Company has awarded KBR with an advisory consulting contract regarding the development of a country wide masterplan for the production of 17 GW of renewables and 25 GW of green hydrogen by 2050.

Evonik has successfully completed the expansion of its methionine production facilities in Singapore. With this, the firm has increased its production capacity by 40,000 metric tons, bringing the total to 340,000 metric tons per year.

Located in Budenheim, Germany, the new facility will produce green hydrogen and fuel cell components. The unit will also produce low-iridium-loaded catalyst coated membranes, a key functional part for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis.

The Finnish energy company Helen has chosen Sweco as its EPCM partner to develop its first green hydrogen production plant in Finland. The project is expected to begin in 2026 and will supply hydrogen to the heavy-duty transport sector.

Wood has won a contract by Centrica Energy Storage for optimizing hydrogen storage for Centrica’s Rough field in the UK. The Rough reservoir has the potential to provide over half of the UK’s hydrogen storage requirements.

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Under a framework agreement signed between Voltalia and Taqa Arabia, both the parties will work towards developing a cluster combining renewable energy and green hydrogen production in Egypt. The project will be developed in two phases and is expected to have an annual production capacity exceeding 130,000 tons of hydrogen in each phase.

Under a MOU signed between both the parties, Boson Energy and Siemens aim to accelerate the green energy transition by converting non-recyclable waste into hydrogen for various applications.

The world’s first of its kind green ammonia plant has recently been inaugurated by Topsoe, Skovgaard Energy, and Vestas in Denmark. The plant is a demonstration project which will demonstrate how renewable power can be coupled directly to an ammonia plant to produce green ammonia in a cost-effective manner.