Southern Rock Energy Partners has selected KBR to support the development of its 250,000-bpd green refinery. The unique project will be powered by solar, wind, waste heat and geothermal energy and aims to become a net zero carbon refinery.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of June 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Indorama Ventures developing the world’s first PET biorecycling plant to Sasa Polyester Sanayi establishing the world’s largest PDH unit in Turkey, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Technip Energies has partnered with John Cockerill to form a new company called Rely. The newly established firm will be 60 % owned by Technip Energies and 40 % owned by John Cockerill and will deliver integrated green hydrogen solutions.

Under a partnership agreement between the two parties, Adnoc and Baker Hughes will speed up the development and commercialization of technology solutions for green and low-carbon hydrogen as well as graphene.

Topsoe’s new facility in Denmark will manufacture electrolyzers in order to produce green hydrogen. The factory is expected to have an initial 500 MW manufacturing capacity and will be operational by 2025.

Under a MOU signed between Keppel Infrastructure and Exxonmobil Asia Pacific, both the firms will work together to explore low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia solutions in Singapore. The move has been carried out in the background of the Singapore Government’s launch of the National Hydrogen Strategy which expects hydrogen to meet up to half of Singapore’s power needs by 2050.

Evonik has plans to invest in a pilot electrolyzer at its Herne site in Germany. The project aims to produce green hydrogen as a starting product for isophorone diamine. This new electrolysis technology will also be researched by Siemens for industrial usage.

Total Energies and Tree Energy Solutions will carry out the preliminary studies and aim to reach a Final Investment Decision in 2024. The large-scale e-NG production unit is expected to produce 100,000 to 200,000 metric tons of e-NG annually.

Under the terms of the contract, Exxon Mobil will transport and permanently store up to 2.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually from Linde’s hydrogen production facility in Texas, USA.

Neste has plans to begin the basic engineering phase for its 120 MW electrolyzer project which will produce green hydrogen at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. The company is also undertaking a preliminary study with Porvoon Energia for the utilization of renewable heat in district heating.