Indonesia’s state-owned oil and gas corporation Pertamina has collaborated with Clariant to assess the feasibility of the latter’s sunliquid technology to convert regional feedstocks into advanced biofuels. Such kind of advanced fuel technology solutions are important to meet the growing demand of ethanol in the country.

Johnson Matthey (JM) has signed a term sheet for the supply of nickel and cobalt from Nornickel, and an agreement for the supply of lithium hydroxide from SQM. The contracts will help the company to ensure long term sustainable supply of critical raw materials for battery materials production, creating an efficient battery electric vehicle supply chain.

With Styrolux ECO and Styroflex ECO, Ineos Styrolution introduces new lines of styrenics solutions made with renewable raw materials.

BASF produces two types of styrene with a mass balance approach – renewable feedstock based-styrene and styrene based on chemically recycled feedstock. Trinseo has secured the first supplies of styrene based on the two different kinds of circular feedstock and will use it to produce styrene butadiene rubber and polystyrene products.

Haldor Topsoe and Nel have entered a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the intent to offer customers complete renewable electricity to ammonia and methanol solutions.

Sasol will be joining Linde, Enertrag and Navitas to explore the potential of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), an initiative supported by the German Government’s H2 Global auction platform. Together with its partners, Sasol plans to carry out feasibility studies regarding the production of SAF at its Secunda Synfuels plant in South Africa.

Chemours aims to achieve a 60 % absolute reduction of operations-related greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. To meet this objective, the company has also appointed Sheryl Telford as its Chief Sustainability Officer.

Johnson Matthey (JM) has been selected to provide its methanol technology to the Haru Oni project, the world’s maiden methanol unit in Patagonia, Chile. The pilot phase of the project is expected to produce around 900,000 liters per year of e-methanol as early as 2022.

Perhaps the boldest chemical engineering project in decades. BASF, Sabic and Linde have plans to establish the project at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site in Germany. The partners will make use of renewable electricity for the project which aims at reducing CO2 emissions by as much as 90 %.

Hitachi ABB Power Grids and P2X Solutions have entered into a partnership agreement. Under the terms of the contract, both the companies will electrify a 20-MW plant which is claimed to be Finland’s first industrial-scale green hydrogen production unit.