Under a MOU signed between ONGC Videsh and Petrobras, both the companies will work together to explore opportunities across diverse areas such as upstream, marketing, decarbonization, and low-carbon solutions, etc.

Under a final agreement between BP and the Government of Iraq, BP will invest in several giant oil fields in Kirkuk for the rehabilitation and redevelopment of the fields, spanning oil, gas, power and water with potential for investment in exploration.

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy has awarded a feedstock allocation to Sipchem and Lyondell Basell for its joint feasibility study for a world-scale mixed feed cracker complex in Saudi Arabia.

Asahi Kasei recently held a grand opening ceremony for a biogas purification system at a sewage treatment plant in Japan. The System makes use of Asahi Kasei’s CO2 separation/recovery technology utilizing zeolites.

Air Products has decided to exit three US-based projects including an agreement with World Energy for the development of a Sustainable Aviation Fuel expansion project in California, the construction of a 35 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen in New York, and a project in Texas for the production of carbon monoxide.

Leybold has introduced two new turbomolecular pumps for industrial and research applications. The pumps are compact, lightweight and low vibration pumps.

With an investment of around 20 million dollars, Arkema has plans to expand its PVDF production site in Calvert City, Kentucky by 15 %. The project is in line with the company’s goal of increasing its global PVDF footprint.

Amufert has awarded a Project Management Consultancy services contract to KBR for the development of its fertilizer plant in Soyo, Angola. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide project management services overseeing engineering, procurement, and construction phases.

Fail-safe functionalities are essential in automation. To meet these requirements in a virtual environment, Siemens has introduced the Simatic S7-1500V F, a fail-safe version of the virtual PLC (vPLC). This enables the execution of fail-safe applications on a vPLC in an industrial edge environment. This allows for the migration of fault-tolerant applications into the virtual world, contributing to the protection of machine operators without the need for dedicated hardware.

Idemitsu Kosan has plans to develop a large-scale production facility for solid electrolytes which is a material used in the production of all-solid-state lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.