Exxon Mobil has increased its holdings in Brazil’s pre-salt basins after it won the Titã exploration block with co-venturer Qatar Petroleum.

MSR-Electronic gas sensors detect dangerous ambient air in critical production processes. The company offers reliable fixed gas warning systems that ensure permanent indoor air monitoring to detect dangerous gas concentrations thus protecting lives and values with lasting effect.

Air Liquide inaugurated its Paris Innovation Campus. This new Campus includes the company's largest Research & Development Center, a fully renovated 15,000-square-meter facility with 48 laboratories and pilot platforms. From 2019, it will also host a deep-tech start-up accelerator.

Maire Tecnimont’s subsidiaries Tecnimont and KT - Kinetics Technology have entered into two EPC contracts with Socar’s subsidiary Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery for the development of new generation refining units at its refinery in Baku, Azerbaijan.

For years, the industry has been working on recycling CO2 as a raw material. Is there a breakthrough now? In its new technology and trend report ‘Carbon Dioxide (CO2) as Chemical Feedstock for Polymers - Technologies, Polymers, Developers and Producers’, the Nova Institute talks about an installed production capacity of 850 kt/a. The authors examine which technologies are available and who the main players are.

Although the Corona crisis is making itself felt in the order books of many EPC companies, confidence is now called for. This is the attitude of Jörg Engelmann, Managing Director of Chemnitz Chemical Plant Construction (CAC), based in Germany. In an interview with the German-language PROCESS, the plant manufacturer sees the company well equipped for the future despite the challenging situation thanks to sustainable technologies, lean processes and good ideas. With their power-to-X processes, resident companies certainly have an ace up their sleeve.

Wacker has enhanced its Esetec Escherichia coli bacteria-based secretion system for manufacturing pharmaceutical proteins. With the improved system, yield can be increased by a factor of 8 which leads to production efficiency in terms of time and costs.

The Cabb Group has earmarked an investment figure well into the double-digit million dollar range for expanding its production and storage capacities by the end of 2019. The company plans to further build on its global position as a producer of ultrapure monochloroacetic acid.

The manufacturer of high-tech polymer materials, Covestro, is planning a new production facility for polyurethane dispersions (PUDs) at their Integrated Site in Shanghai, China (CISS). The company wants to address the rising demand for environmentally compatible coatings and adhesives in the Asia-Pacific region. A further line for polyester resins, from which PUDs are produced, is also to be built there.

Cannabis removed from the UN prohibition schedule and CBD not considered as a narcotic drug — Two major decisions to drive further research to explore the full potential of one of the major and longest established medicinal plants. A new report provides information on production technologies, medical applications and political framework conditions.