China wants to accelerate the concentration of its petrochemical industry into five industrial clusters. The ‘big five’ are listed in the People's Republic's just published new five-year plan. The China Market Insider Report presents them in detail.

Hydrogen technology company H2Site has raised 12.5 million euros in a Series A funding round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV). The funding is to accelerate the scale up of the company’s integrated membrane reactor and membrane separation technologies.

Air Products and Gunvor Petroleum Rotterdam have plans to develop a green hydrogen import terminal in Rotterdam. Green ammonia will be received at the site from Air Products’ green hydrogen production locations.

Vattenfall and Preem are currently exploring the idea to speed up the development of a value chain which connects offshore wind and hydrogen with the refining industry in order to decarbonize its operations.

BASF’s Puristar R0-20 catalyst and Sorbead Adsorption Technology is being assessed by Shell for producing green hydrogen. Both the technologies are now under Shell’s portfolio for potential use across its global green hydrogen projects.

Mercury Renewables has selected Black & Veatch to support the development of one of Ireland’s first co-located onshore wind farm and hydrogen electrolysis plants. Initially, Black & Veatch will carry out a feasibility study of the project and later on develop an outline design for the facility.

Air Liquide and Siemens have formed a joint venture (JV) to produce large-scale renewable hydrogen electrolyzers in Europe. In the new JV, Air Liquide will hold a 25.1 % stake while the remaining stake of 74.9 % will be held by Siemens Energy.

China's energy sector and the country's petrochemical industry are preparing for a future with less fossil fuel. The ‘development of non-fossil energy’ should be a priority from now on, according to a recently published white paper by the Chinese Government, the main points of which PROCESS (China) summarizes in an analysis.

HH2E and Met Group have established a joint project company for building one of the largest production plants for green hydrogen in Germany. On completion, the project is expected to produce more than 60,000 tons of green hydrogen annually.

With H2 Hydrogen Hoses for the low-pressure range, Elaflex has developed connection hoses for the transfer of 100 % hydrogen.