Industry News
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S-Oil CEO apologizes for deadly refinery explosion in Ulsan
S-Oil CEO Hussain A. Al-Qahtani made a public apology Friday for an explosion at the company's refinery in the southeastern industrial city, which killed one subcontracted worker and injured nine more.
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The Downstream Rundown: 5/20
In case you missed any downstream news, this piece will give you a summary of some of the top stories from last week.
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China buys excess crude oil, looks to Russia for even more
China is continuing to import more crude oil than it needs as weak refinery processing rates, soft domestic demand and constrained exports of refined fuels combine to boost the building of stockpiles.
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TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy partner on U.S. advanced recycling project
TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy today announced a commercial agreement under which New Hope Energy will build an advanced recycling plant in Texas to transform end-of-life plastic waste into a recycled feedstock that TotalEnergies will partly purchase and convert into virgin-quality polymers.
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Pertamina, Air Liquide to study carbon capture
Pertamina said it will jointly study carbon capture technology at its refinery in Balikpapan with a local unit of French gas company Air Liquide.
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U.S. House passes bill to fight oil and gas price gouging
The U.S. House passed a bill on Thursday that allows the U.S. president to issue an energy emergency declaration, making it unlawful for companies to excessively increase gasoline and home fuel prices.
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Slovak refiner Slovnaft to start two-month outages on Friday
Slovnaft, part of Hungarian oil and gas group MOL, will launch a planned outage for maintenance and upgrades on Friday.
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Nutrien eyes U.S. ammonia plant with low carbon emissions
Nutrien intends to build a $2 B U.S. plant to produce ammonia with low carbon emissions in the sector's latest move to meet rising global demand for clean energy.
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Encina Achieves ISCC PLUS Certification
Encina Development Group announced today that it achieved the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS designation for its circular monomers converted from post-consumer and scrap plastic.
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Chevron launches carbon capture and storage project in San Joaquin Valley
Chevron New Energies division announced it is launching a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project aimed at reducing the carbon intensity of its operations in San Joaquin Valley, California.
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New alliance announces nuclear subs for Australia
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Clean energy partnership supports UK and UAE goals
ENERGY companies Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), BP, and Masdar have signed strategic partnership agreements to provide clean energy technologies to the UK and UAE, including carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) and hydrogen.
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Renewables – not fossil fuels – are strongest link in the energy supply chain, new study finds
RESEARCHERS have developed a method to thoroughly assess the risks associated with fuel supply chains, showing in a UK case study that renewables are less risky than fossil fuels and nuclear power, in contrast to previous studies which imply that renewables carried a greater risk.
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Carbon Clean captures CO2 from Tata Steel blast furnace
CARBON Clean has installed a carbon capture plant at a blast furnace owned by Tata Steel in India.
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Industry majors discuss using Houston as major CCS hub
ELEVEN chemicals, energy, and power companies – including Chevron, Dow, ExxonMobil, and Ineos – are considering large-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) that could capture nearly 75m t/y of CO2 in the US, by 2040.
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Briar Chemicals fined £1m following fatal accident
BRIAR Chemicals has been fined £1m (US$1.4m) following the death of a contractor at its site in Norwich, UK, in 2018.
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Clean Cells to build new production facility
BIOPHARMACEUTICAL company Clean Cells has invested €13m (US$15.3m) in a new production facility in France that would quadruple its analysis and production capacity.
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LG Chem and TK Chemical sign MoU for biodegradable plastics
LG Chem and TK Chemical have announced a memorandum of understanding to produce biodegradable plastics.
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UK Government props up industry to prevent CO2 shortage
THE UK Government has been forced to step in and pay for industry to keep producing CO2 after a rapid rise in energy prices forced fertiliser manufacturers to shut down operations.
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AstraZeneca to build manufacturing facility in Ireland
ASTRAZENECA has announced that it is planning to build a new active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing facility in Ireland.
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ARENA releases investment plan for low-emissions technologies
THE Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has launched an investment plan setting out how it will support the technologies needed to transition to zero emissions.
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BOC becomes Bronze Corporate Partner
BOC HAS been awarded IChemE Bronze Corporate Partner Award status, in recognition of its professional development and mentoring.
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Ineos announces investment for hydrogen upgrade at Grangemouth
INEOS has announced plans to invest more than £1bn (US$1.4bn) towards reducing emissions at its site at Grangemouth in Scotland.
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Shell to build biofuel facility in the Netherlands
SHELL plans to build an 820,000 t/y biofuels facility in the Netherlands, which it claims will be one of Europe’s largest.
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Shell sells Permian business to ConocoPhillips
SHELL has announced the sale of its Permian assets to ConocoPhillips for US$9.5bn.
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Climeworks starts up industrial-scale direct air capture facility
CLIMEWORKS has started operations at the world’s largest direct air capture and CO2 storage facility, in Iceland.
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Successful UK trial blends hydrogen in gas network
HYDEPLOY has announced the first successful UK trial of blending hydrogen into the gas network.
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Partnership to commercially develop waste-to-methanol technology
JOHNSON Matthey has teamed up with waste-to-chemical technologies company MyRechemical to commercially develop waste-to-methanol technology, with the aim of contributing to sustainability.
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Eneos and Petronas study clean hydrogen supply chain
PETRONAS and Japanese oil company Eneos have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly develop a competitive clean hydrogen supply chain between Japan and Malaysia, and to explore other hydrogen opportunities.
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TotalEnergies and Iraq sign agreements for US$27bn projects
TOTALENERGIES has signed an agreement with the Government of Iraq, and the country’s National Investment Commission (NIC), for oil, gas, and solar projects in the Basra region, worth US$27bn over 25 years.
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Partners share open-source PFAS-free packaging technique
FOLLOWING nine months of collaboration, partners Solenis and Zume have open-sourced a recipe and method for manufacturing non-plastic PFAS-free food and consumer packaging.
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IAEA reviews Fukushima water release
OFFICIALS from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have visited Japan to review the plans to release treated water from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station into the sea.
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Partnership to produce polypropylene from CO2
BIOTECHNOLOGY company LanzaTech and clean technology company Twelve – formerly Opus 12 – have joined forces to produce polypropylene from captured CO2.
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Siemens launches recyclable wind turbine blades
WIND power company Siemens Gamesa has launched a “world first”, recyclable wind turbine blade for commercial offshore use.
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UK regulator relaxes effluent rules as water treatment firms begin running out of chemicals
A SHORTAGE of chemicals used to treat wastewater in the UK has led the Environment Agency to relax rules and allow facilities to release untreated effluent. A lack of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers is causing chemicals supply chains to fail, an industry group has warned.
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ExxonMobil introduces renewable diesel process
ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing has introduced ExxonMobil Renewable Diesel (EMRD) process technology, to help meet evolving mobility needs using renewable feedstock.
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IChemE co-creates chemical engineering TV programme
ICHEME and ITN Productions’ Industry News are working to co-create Serving Society, a unique, news-style programme to improve understanding of global issues and raise awareness of the vital role of chemical engineers in delivering responsible solutions to benefit society.
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Imperial Oil plans renewable diesel facility
CANADIAN oil major Imperial Oil is advancing plans for a 1bn L/y renewable diesel complex at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Ineos Styrolution joins U.S. Plastics Pact
STYRENICS supplier Ineos Styrolution has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative initiative helping to move towards a circular plastics economy in the US, by 2025.
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IChemE announces 2021 Global Awards finalists
ICHEME has announced more than 120 finalists for its 2021 Global Awards.
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UK funds projects to boost production of biomass
THE UK Government has awarded £4m (US$5.5m) across 24 projects to increase biomass production that can be used for green energy.
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Report facilitates Franco-Scottish collaboration in floating wind and hydrogen
A REPORT published by the Scottish Government, has recommended areas for research collaboration between French and Scottish organisations working in floating wind and hydrogen.
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Glencore and Britishvolt enter long-term supply agreement
GLENCORE and Britishvolt have signed an agreement for the mining company to supply responsibly-sourced cobalt for the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries.
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Linde signs green hydrogen deal with semiconductor company
LINDE has signed an agreement to supply green hydrogen to semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies.
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Trial successfully produces glass using hydrogen power
A TRIAL has shown that a glass furnace can successfully be powered with hydrogen instead of natural gas.
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Partnership to convert landfill waste into hydrogen for transport
RENEWABLE fuels company Raven SR has entered into an agreement with a Republic Services sanitary landfill in Northern California to convert organic waste into hydrogen that can be sold at commercial fuel stations.
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Fire at Leamington Spa plastics facility
A FIRE and subsequent explosions occurred at a plastics facility in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK on 27 August. One worker is still unaccounted for.
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Ida’s impacts on Louisiana refining, petchem complexes uncertain
Current operations at most of Louisiana’s major refining and petrochemical complexes remain uncertain in the wake of Hurricane Ida, the eye of which made landfall as a Category 4 storm along the southeastern coast of Louisiana.
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Mitsubishi develops 20,000 t/y plastics recycling plant in Japan
MITSUBISHI Chemical Corporation (MCC) will develop a 20,000 t/y HydroPRS plastics recycling facility in Japan. This is the company’s first HydroPRS project following a licensing agreement for the technology, signed in June.
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Scotland launches green jobs advice service
THE Scottish Government has launched a workforce academy with the aim of offering advice to workers preparing to transition to green jobs.
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