Egypt’s Alexandria National Refining and Petrochemical Company has awarded an engineering contract to Honeywell for upgrading its existing naphtha complex. With this move, the company intends to enhance the quality of its gasoline blend stock and produce feedstock for petrochemical production as well as increase its gasoline production in the country.

Shell Nederland and Shell Overseas Investments, subsidiaries of Shell, have taken the final investment decision to build Holland Hydrogen I, which will be Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen plant once operational in 2025.

Amidst growing demand, Neste has plans to expand its renewable products refinery in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. With this move, the company will expand its overall renewable product capacity by 1.3 million tons annually, thus, leading to the firm’s total renewable product capacity in Rotterdam to 2.7 million tons per annum.

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.

Speciality chemicals company Solvay has announced its plans to invest in a new facility to produce electronic grade hydrogen peroxide (eH2O2) in Casa Grande, USA, to supply the growing U.S. semiconductor manufacturing market.

The global chemical process industries are aware of this trend and some of them are already undertaking mega projects to accelerate their energy transition.

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.

Braskem and Haldor Topsoe have recently achieved their first demo-scale production of bio-based monoethylene glycol (MEG) from sugar in Denmark. This confirms the potential for large-scale production of renewable MEG by making use of the Mosaik technology.

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.

On the occasion of the state visit in Paris of Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, Total Energies and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) have signed a strategic partnership agreement that aims to jointly evaluate new growth opportunities in several areas.