Kemira has successfully completed the divestment of its Oil & Gas related portfolio to Sterling Specialty Chemicals, a US subsidiary of Artek Group. The move is in line with the company’s strategy of focusing on its core businesses and accelerating its profitable growth strategy.

Total Energies has acquired Kyon Energy, one of the leading developers of battery storage systems in Germany. The deal comprises of a 90-million-euro upfront payment along with some earn out payments related to the achievement of development targets.

The Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) published its latest report ‘Case Studies Based on Peer-reviewed Life Cycle Assessments – Carbon Footprints of Different Renewable Carbon-based Chemicals and Materials’. The report revealed that renewable carbon-based materials exhibited significant lower CO2 footprint than its fossil counterparts.

New Power Purchase Agreements have been signed between Air Liquide, Sasol and Mainstream Renewable Power for Sasol’s Secunda site in South Africa. Under the terms of the contracts, Mainstream Renewable Power will supply renewable power with a capacity of 97.5 MW to the site.

Shell has decided to repurpose its Wesseling site at the Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland in Germany by converting the site’s hydrocracker into a production unit for Group III base oils. These base oils are used for producing high-quality lubricants such as engine and transmission oils.

Michelin, Ifpen and Axens have recently inaugurated what it claims to be the first industrial-scale demonstrator of a plant producing bio-based butadiene from bioethanol. The demonstrator is built at Michelin’s site in Bassens near Bordeaux in France.

Expensive, unsuitable and not marketable: Hydrogen is scrutinized. The promised miracle substance of defossilization is said to be a waste of energy and not half as environmentally friendly as hoped. What's the truth about hydrogen myths? Time to take a closer look.

Lubrizol Advanced Materials has revealed that three additional Lubrizol Engineered Polymers sites—Lubrizol Advanced Materials’ headquarters in Brecksville and the production plants in Avon Lake, Ohio, U.S., and Oevel, Belgium—have obtained the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification Plus certification.

A consortium of 15 companies including Neste have successfully concluded a joint ‘E-Fuel research project’ in which high temperature electrolysis (SOEC), carbon capture, and hydrocarbon synthesis technologies were demonstrated and production of synthetic e-fuels was also accelerated.

Hycc delays the green hydrogen project H2eron in Delfzijl to 2028 due to slow market development and rising costs. The European Renewable Energy Directive III impacts the timeline, pushing market maturity to around 2030. To mitigate costs, Hycc plans to increase H2eron's capacity to 50 MW and shifts from Nel to Norwegian alkaline electrolyzers for the project.