Technip Energies has bagged the Feed contract from Exxonmobil to develop the mega project which is expected to produce one billion cubic feet of low-carbon hydrogen per day. Also, more than 98 % of the associated CO2 produced by the facility is expected to be captured and permanently stored.

Brasil Biofuels has awarded Haldor Topsoe with a technology contract for its new biorefinery in Manaus, Brazil. Under the terms of the agreement, Topsoe will provide its Hydroflex and H2bridge technologies for the production of sustainable aviation fuel and second-generation biofuel at the biorefinery.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Europe’s most sustainable cracker securing a funding of 3.5 billion euros to Exxonmobil investing 2-billion-dollars for expanding its Baytown chemical plant in the US, find out all the projects making headlines here.

With the acquisition of Tradeimpex, IMCD India plans to expand its advanced materials business in the Asian country. Tradeimpex generated a revenue of approximately 39 million euros in the last financial year.

Alberto Negri will succeed Marco Baietti to become Sea Vision’s new Chief Commercial Officer. In his new role, Negri will guide the sales team to achieve the firm’s medium and long-term objectives as well as support the company’s Chairman and CEO.

Eastman has secured feedstock agreements with three different companies and will use the feedstock for its molecular recycling facility in Normandy, France which is expected to become the world’s largest material-to-material molecular recycling plant.

Dow and Shell have achieved a significant milestone by starting up the e-cracking furnace experimental unit in the Netherlands. With this project, the companies aim to decarbonize one of the most critical petrochemical manufacturing processes.

Pall Life Sciences and Cytiva will operate as a combined business under the Cytiva name whereas Pall will be held as a product family name. The move will also lead to re-branding under the Cytiva brand name.

Ensuring the design team and stakeholders work together is crucial at the start on any large capital project. Collaboration is essential when it comes to working with many different groups, partners, subcontractors, and inter-departmental personnel, as they work with multiple information sources and make numerous design changes as part of the review process. Failure in any of these work processes can result in costly mistakes once handover is complete as the project moves into construction – and even more so as it moves into operations.

Sumitomo Corporation has taken over Saconix, a firm which is engaged in the distribution and transportation service of sulfuric acid in the US West and Gulf. With this move, the company will increase its worldwide sulfuric acid storage capacity to about 330,000 tons and increase its trading volume to about 3.5 million tons of sulfuric acid annually.