Under the virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA), the Nextera Energy Resources subsidiary will develop the new wind project ‘Appaloosa Run Wind’ in Texas, USA and will deliver the equivalent of 135 MWs of new wind power capacity annually. The move is in line with Dupont’s Acting on Climate goal of reducing absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 30 % and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

As many as eleven companies are supporting the large-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in Houston in order to decarbonize industrial units in the region. Together they are planning to potentially capture and safely store up to 50 million metric tons of CO2 per year by 2030 and about 100 million metric tons by 2040.

Repsol has plans to invest 10.4 million dollars for the electrolyzer at the Petronor Refinery in Spain which will produce renewable hydrogen. Low and zero carbon footprint products will be manufactured by the firm with the use of this renewable hydrogen. The company aims to decarbonize its processes at all its industrial complexes.

Solvay and United Chemical Company LLP (UCC) have jointly started to examine the construction of new hydrogen peroxide capacity in Kazakhstan.

Fluor Corporation announced its joint venture team, KPJV, has been selected by Tengizchevroil (TCO) to execute the front-end engineering and design for the Multi-Phase Pump Project in Kazakhstan.

Due to the increase in natural gas prices in the European market, BASF has now curtailed its ammonia production at its sites in Antwerp, Belgium and Ludwigshafen, Germany. The move follows Yara’s recent announcement of curtailing around 40 % of its ammonia production across its numerous plants in Europe.

Siemens sees digitalisation as the key driver for industrial growth: At the SPS IPC Drives the German electronics giant presented its new strategic focus on discrete and process industries.

Enterprise Products Partners plans to construct a new isobutane dehydrogenation (iBDH) unit in Mont Belvieu with a capacity of 425,000 tons per year of isobutylene.

Worley Parsons has been selected to provide engineering, procurement, construction management and fabrication services for Chevron’s Salt Lake Refinery Retrofit Project in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Stora Enso invests € 70 million in a new polyethylene (PE) extrusion coating plant and an automated roll warehouse (ARW) at its Imatra mills in Finland.