The demand for green chemicals has significantly increased due to the pressing emphasis on decarbonization of industries, strong government regulations in support of the environment and a change in consumer preferences towards sustainable alternatives. PROCESS Worldwide shares an overview about the green chemicals market as well as highlights industry trends in this space.

The performance testing of the world's largest all-electric ammonia cracking system has successfully been commissioned and completed by Syzygy Plasmonics and Lotte Chemical in Ulsan, South Korea.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of December 2024’ from all over the world. Right from Qatar Energy breaking ground on a 1.2-billion-dollar blue ammonia plant to the world's first full-scale carbon capture unit reaching mechanical completion, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Pengerang Biorefinery, a joint venture between Petronas Mobility Lestari, Enilive, and Euglena, has awarded KT-Kinetics Technology with licensing as well as engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning services for a hydrogen production unit in Johor, Malaysia.

Reolum has selected Johnson Matthey’s e-methanol technology for its La Robla Nueva Energia project in Spain which is claimed to be one of the largest e-methanol production plants in Europe.

The expansion of the petrochemical complex in Daya Bay, Huizhou, south China will include a third ethylene cracker as well as associated downstream derivatives units producing chemicals including linear alpha olefins.

BP Europa has plans to sell its Ruhr Oel – BP Gelsenkirchen operation in Germany which includes the BP refinery in Gelsenkirchen and DHC Solvent Chemie in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The move is in line with BP’s goal of delivering a simpler, more focused, higher value company.

Repsol will supply three truck-loads, totalling 60 tons of bio-LNG to Brittany Ferries LNG-fuelled vessels. The deal is claimed to be the first supply of its kind in Spain.

Braskem has officially inaugurated its new Renewable Innovation Center in Massachusetts, USA. The center aims to focus on accelerating early-stage innovations in renewable chemicals and sustainable materials.

USA Bioenergy has acquired 1,600+ acres of land in East Texas, USA for its new 2.8-billion-dollar sustainable aviation fuel refinery. The advanced biorefinery has already secured a 20-year offtake agreement with Southwest Airlines.