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ANGLO AMERICAN has announced plans to break up the company, including getting rid of its coking coal, platinum, and diamonds businesses, as it fends off a takeover from mining rival BHP.
Type: News
BHP suspends Western Australia Nickel operations, affecting 3,000 jobs
AUSTRALIAN mining group BHP is suspending its Western Australia nickel operations, putting 3,300 jobs at risk.
Type: News
US oil and gas lagging in efforts to achieve net zero, says Carbon Tracker
US OIL and gas majors are lagging behind European rivals as companies seek to transition towards net-zero, according to a report from think tank Carbon Tracker. However, both US and European companies have work to do to ensure they are prepared for the energy transition challenge.
Type: News
Repsol produces Spain's first batch of aviation biofuel
SPANISH energy company Repsol has produced the national market’s first batch of aviation biofuel. The 7,000 t batch, which was derived from biomass, will prevent 440 t of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere.
Type: News
ExxonMobil gambles US$60bn on shale oil buyout
EXXONMOBIL has placed a US$60bn bet on US shale oil with the purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources.
Type: News
IChemE proposes new rules allowing non-chartered Fellows and extending votes to the wider membership
ICHEME has proposed changes to its Royal Charter and by-laws that will decouple Fellows from having to be chartered and extend voting rights to associate and technician members.
Type: News
Finalists announced for IChemE Awards 2017
ICHEME has announced a total of almost 200 finalists for its 2017 Global, Singapore and Malaysia awards ceremonies.
Type: News
Biodiesel: The tip of the fatberg
A GIANT “fatberg” made of congealed insoluble matter will be converted into 10,000 L of biodiesel after it has been removed from a London sewer.
Type: News
Turbocharging towards CO2-free cracking
ENGINEERS at Coolbrook and ABB have set their sights on replacing steam cracking technology with a novel turbomachine called the Roto Dynamic Reactor (RDR) that they will pilot at a chemicals site in the Netherlands later this year.
Type: News
Scientists win Nobel prize for developing Li-ion batteries
THE 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino, who each made essential contributions to the development of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries.
Type: News
UK funds projects vying to develop net zero industrial clusters
THE UK Government has given funding to groups that are competing to develop the world’s first net zero industrial cluster by 2040.
Type: News
Book Review: The Authority Gap
Mary Ann Sieghart; ISBN: 9781784165888; Black Swan (an imprint of Transworld Publishers); 2022; £10.99
Type: Feature
A GREENER and more easily recycled lithium-ion battery, a microbial fuel cell for cleaning water while generating electricity, and polycotton recycling technology are among the 15 developments across six continents that could receive a share of £5m (US$6.1m) from the Earthshot Prize this year.
Type: News
EDF consortium awarded almost £400,000 as UK government announces hydrogen fuel switching funding
BAY HYDROGEN HUB has received £399,376 (US$487,381) in additional funding from the UK government to support its project to use nuclear-generated hydrogen to decarbonise asphalt and cement production. The EDF-led consortium won support alongside eight other projects awarded in the UK’s Industrial Hydrogen Accelerator Programme.
Type: News
Johnson Matthey shakes up business in wake of battery exit
JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) has sold its battery materials business and will focus more on hydrogen technologies, with the CEO restructuring the company after a period of poor performance.
Type: News
UK funding to help SMR programme advance
RECENT funding, announced as part of the UK’s ten-point plan for an industrial revolution, will help UK SMR, a consortium for small modular reactor (SMR) development, as it works to build 16 SMR power stations to boost green economic recovery. The effort is expected to create 40,000 jobs over the next 15 years.
Type: News
RWE, Mitsui, and Port of Tilbury sign MoU on green hydrogen projects to decarbonise port operations
RWE, one of the UK’s largest power generators, along with global trading and investment company Mitsui and the Port of Tilbury have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop two green hydrogen projects that will help decarbonise operations at the port in Essex.
Type: News
BASF to downsize in Europe as chemicals trade group warns the sector is at breaking point
BASF has said it must “permanently” cut costs at its European sites to protect the company from weakening chemical market conditions in the region. The blow follows warnings from the European chemicals trade group Cefic that the energy crisis has pushed the sector to “breaking point”.
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