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Fire at Petronas refinery in Malaysia

AN explosion and fire occurred at the Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Johor, Malaysia, a refinery being developed by Petronas.

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Covestro to transform process engineering workflow

PLASTICS company Covestro has signed a deal with industrial software company AVEVA, to help digitally transform its process engineering workflow using AVEVA’s process simulation platform.

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Hurricane Energy produces first oil at fractured basement field

HURRICANE Energy has produced first oil from the UK’s first fractured basement field in the North Sea.

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Two dead and one missing after explosion at Indian chemicals plant

AN explosion and fire at Punjab Chemicals and Crop Protection in Dera Bassi, India, has killed two employees, injured at least 12, and one person is still missing.

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LyondellBasell signs MoU with Liaoning Bora Enterprise Group for China expansion

LYONDELLBASELL has signed a memorandum of understanding for a joint venture with Liaoning Bora Enterprise Group to expand its business in China.

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Expansions to lithium plants in Australia on hold due to market downturn

CHINA-based Tianqi Lithium has halted work on the expansion of its lithium hydroxide refinery in the Kwinana Industrial Area in Australia, as well as an expansion on its Talison Lithium joint venture at the Greenbushes lithium mine.

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New Zealand refinery goes solar

REFINING NZ is building New Zealand’s largest solar farm to power its refinery at Marsden Point.

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BASF sells Construction Chemicals to Lone Star

GLOBAL private equity firm Lone Star has signed a purchase agreement to acquire BASF’s Construction Chemicals business.

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Ineos to build world-scale styrene plant in China

INEOS Styrolution, a global styrenics supplier, is to build a 600,000 t/y greenfield acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plant in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China.

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Atkins wins Shell technical safety contract

ATKINS has been awarded a five-year contract to provide technical safety and human factors services to Shell.

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Santos and BP sign CCS agreement

SANTOS and BP have entered a non-binding agreement to support the Moomba carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Australia.

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Green light given to UK plastic-to-hydrogen facility

THE UK’s first plastic-to-hydrogen facility has received planning consent at a site near Ellesmere Port.

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Novel steam reforming catalyst has first commercial success

A NOVEL steam reforming catalyst, produced by Clariant, has proved successful in its first commercial use at OCI Nitrogen’s ammonia production plant in Geleen, the Netherlands.

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Energy company to use biomass to refire one of Australia’s top emitting coal power plants

AUSTRALIAN company Hunter Energy is to refire Redbank Power Station, a 151 MW coal plant in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, using biomass. It will employ waste wood products for energy generation.

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Saudi Aramco completes acquisition of stake in SABIC

SAUDI Aramco has announced that it has successfully completed its acquisition of a 70% stake in petrochemical company SABIC.

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Chevron sells Australian LNG stake

CHEVRON is selling its stake in Australia’s North West Shelf, the county’s biggest liquified natural gas (LNG) project.

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Clariant and Ineratec announce renewable fuels partnership

CLARIANT and Ineratec have entered a partnership to use Clariant’s catalysis experience to support Ineratec’s gas-to-liquid technology.

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Australia and Singapore partner on low emissions technologies

THE Australian and Singaporean governments have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance cooperation on low emissions technologies.

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Australia plans network of hydrogen clusters

A NETWORK of hydrogen technology clusters is to be established across Australia with the aim of creating a globally competitive hydrogen industry.

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Shell lays out net-zero strategy

OIL and gas major Shell has set out a strategy for achieving net zero energy transformation by 2050, which it says will be powered by growth in its customer-facing businesses.

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