Seaboard Energy will make use of Haldor Topsoe’s Hydroflex renewable fuel technology for its 6,500 barrels-per-day renewable diesel unit which is located at its renewable fuels complex in Hugoton, Kansas, US. The company intends to produce renewable diesel from tallow and soybean oil.

Orlen Unipetrol has recently commissioned a pyrolytic testing unit for processing waste-plastics at its chemical plant in Litvínov, Czech Republic. With this move, the company intends to expand the conventional fuel and plastic production from fossil fuels with new sources that will lead to the decarbonization of the country.

The Eramet group and Electricité de Strasbourg have collaborated and successfully announced the first pilot test which was able to extract lithium from geothermal brine in Alsace, France. The move is considered to be a major step forward for the European Geothermal Lithium Brine (Eugeli) project.

Exxon Mobil has become the maiden energy firm to enter the IBM Q Network to explore the use of quantum computing for developing innovative and efficient energy and manufacturing technologies.

The chemical plants aim at establishing a high-performance synthetic resin manufacturing and sales business for Kuraray, PTTGC and Sumitomo Corporation. With the rise in global demand for chemical products, Japanese chemical manufacuturers are expanding their production capacity in locations where petroleum and chemical products are price competitive.

In line with India’s BS-VI emission standards and an aim to increase crude oil conversion, Numaligarh Refinery Ltd has chosen UOP’s Unionfining technology for producing cleaner-burning diesel fuels. The technology will be implemented at the Numaligarh Refinery Expansion Project (NREP) located in Assam.

Celanese‘s recent takeover of one of India’s largest engineering thermoplastics compounders has enabled the firm to possess a 20 kilo tonnes per annum domestic compounding production facility in the country along with quality production lines to support local customers.

BP today launched a new low carbon and carbon neutral PTA brand with three products that offer producers in the polyester value chain a way to mitigate their carbon dioxide emissions.

Watlow has recently introduced a batch processing feature for its powerful F4T temperature and process controller and D4T data logger. The batch processing feature is ideal for OEMs and end users with thermal processes who seek to collect manufacturing part processing thermal data. The F4T or D4T with batch processing simplifies and automates data record entry and reports.

Reuters reports that the Malaysian state oil company Petronas started trial runs at the crude distillation unit (CDU) for a joint-venture refinery with Saudi Aramco in Malaysia, quoting two sources with knowledge of the matter.