Yokogawa Electric has been selected by Shell as the Main Automation Contractor for the Holland Hydrogen I plant being developed in the port of Rotterdam, Netherlands. Yokogawa will optimize operations at the plant which is expected to produce up to 60,000 kilograms of green hydrogen per day.

Oriental Energy’s new plant in Maoming, China has selected Grace’s Unipol PP Process Technology for producing high-quality homopolymers and random copolymers.

Merck’s new plant will produce specialty gases and semiconductor materials for thin film and patterning solutions. The project is being developed in Kaohsiung, Taiwan to further support the company’s semiconductor solutions business which is one of its ‘Big 3’ growth drivers.

With the acquisition of a majority stake of 50.01 % in Renasci, Borealis will obtain access to chemically recycled feedstock as well as the Smart Chain Processing concept which will help the firm to achieve its circular goals.

Indian Oil Corporation has awarded a project management consultancy as well as an engineering, procurement, and construction management contract to Mc Dermott for expanding its petrochemical complex near New Delhi, India.

With a mega investment of 7-million-dollars, Borealis has developed a new filtration system with assistance from the Technische Universität Wien and the Graz University of Technology. The system boasts of reducing the loss of plastic pellets into the environment in order to meet the goal of zero pellet loss.

With increasing demand from the mobility industry, Linde has plans to expand its green hydrogen production capacity in Ontario, California, USA. For this, the company intends to develop and operate several planned five-megawatt PEM electrolyzers.

Under a joint venture, Saipem and Clough will establish a mega urea plant for Perdaman Industries in Western Australia. The plant aims to minimize both industrial emissions and the carbon footprint of fertilizer production.

OMV has decided to hold negotiations with Adnoc on a potential cooperation regarding their polyolefins businesses. Under this, the firms will also aim to combine their Borealis and Borouge businesses to establish a global polyolefin company.

With the growing demand for biofuels across the globe, the oil refining firm Neste is in the process of expanding and digitalizing its existing biofuel refinery in Singapore in order to enhance process safety and asset integrity in the plant; improve energy efficiency, operational reliability and predictability in maintenance regime; and foster closer collaborations among other production sites.