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BASF inaugurates new plant for alkyl ethanolamines at its Antwerp Verbund site

BASF has inaugurated a new world-scale production plant for alkyl ethanolamines at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. This new investment will increase the company’s global annual production capacity for alkyl ethanolamines, including dimethyl ethanolamine (DMEOA) and methyl diethanolamine (MDEOA), by nearly 30% to over 140,000 tpy.

Ceres Power Holdings signs SOEC systems license with Thermax to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries

The partnership will accelerate solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) system development within the hard-to-abate green ammonia, petrochemical and steel industries in India and other territories.

bp, Iberdrola take FID on Spain's largest green hydrogen plant

bp and Iberdrola have given the green light for construction of a 25-MW green H2 project at bp's Castellón refinery, which is expected to be operational in 2H 2026.

Russia's Sibur plans domestic bond issue to fund $10-B Amur gas-chemical complex

Sibur plans to place domestic bonds before the end of the year to fund the $10-B Amur gas and chemical complex, which will produce 2.3 MMtpy of polyethylene and 400,000 tpy of polypropylene once completed.

Motiva awards Honeywell UOP a contract for Port Arthur (U.S.) aromatics project

Motiva announced that it has advanced its aromatics project by executing a license for Honeywell UOP’s aromatics technologies for a world-scale aromatics unit to produce benzene and paraxylene.

ADNOC and ExxonMobil to partner in world’s largest low-carbon hydrogen facility

His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, has witnessed the signing of an agreement in which ADNOC will acquire a 35% equity stake in ExxonMobil Corporation’s proposed low-carbon hydrogen (H2) and ammonia production facility in Baytown, Texas.

Digital Feature: Cracking the chemical industry’s carbon code

This article focuses on how Evonik is decarbonizing chemical processing operations at its Herne site in Germany. This work details the installation of an advanced proprietary proton exchange membrane electrolyzer that will produce H2 and oxygen onsite from renewable energy.

India's Bharat Petroleum Corp. to boost integrated refining-petrochemical capacity by 2030

India's Bharat Petroleum Corp plans to increase its integrated refining and petrochemical capacities within the next 5 yr-7yr to meet growing energy demand. India's annual consumption of refined fuels and petrochemicals is expected to rise steadily by 4%-5% and 7%-8% in the 'foreseeable future'.

Lummus to supply ethylene technology to Silleno's PE plant in Kazakhstan

Lummus Technology announced a contract award from Silleno for an ethylene unit, which will be part of the first polyethylene plant to be built in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

AFC leads financing for Africa's largest gas-to-methanol complex

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, is arranging a project development facility to support Africa’s largest gas-to-methanol plant, with the aim of significantly reducing CO2 emissions by offsetting flaring of natural gas and turning it instead into a valuable chemical for solvents, paints, plastics and car parts.