The World Future Energy Summit 2025 was held from January 14 – 16 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Industry experts appealed for a surge in new tech and global climate change ambitions at the three-day event.

EPC Engineering & Technologies has partnered with Avantium to commercialize the continuous polymerization of PEF (PEF cpol Technology). For this, Avantium and EPC will integrate their respective technologies and processes, together with the solid state polymerization of Polymetrix.

Cefic has recently launched its new competitiveness report. The study confirms and emphasizes the severity of the situation for the EU chemicals industry by exploring how the EU chemical industry compares competitively with the USA, China, Japan, Brazil, India and the Middle East.

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.

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.

Honeywell’s Ecofining technology has been selected by the St1 Refinery to produce sustainable aviation fuel. The Gothenburg plant is expected to produce 200,000 tons of renewable fuels annually and can utilize flexible feedstocks, including used cooking oil, animal fats, and tall oil fatty acids from paper and pulp mills.

The Global Impact Coalition (GIC) spearheads an industry collaboration that aims to scale technologies and business models for reducing carbon emissions and advancing circularity in the chemicals sector. Charlie Tan, CEO of Global Impact Coalition shares detailed insights about the objective of the GIC, projects initiated by the consortium in the past one-year, upcoming opportunities for clean technologies as well as the challenges faced by the chemical industry. Read on to know more…

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.

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.

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.