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Wood and National Nuclear Laboratory partner for nuclear fuel research
THE UK government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has awarded a three-year contract to Wood and National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) to research advanced nuclear fuels.
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New coal-to-chemistry plant in Inner Mongolia will use novel ethylene glycol technology
DOWNSTREAM producer Jiutai is planning a coal-to-chemistry plant in Inner Mongolia that will produce ethylene glycol from syngas, using proprietary technology developed by Johnson Matthey and Eastman Chemical Company.
Type: News
Wood wins work on Anglesey nuclear project
WOOD has won a contract to support Hitachi’s work as architect engineer for the Wylfa Newydd nuclear plant in the UK.
Type: News
Flooding causes damage to Dangote refinery
FLOODING due to heavy rainfall has caused damage to the US$10bn Dangote refinery site in Nigeria.
Type: News
Nouryon reduces emissions by increasing its bio-steam supply
NOURYON plans to reduce its CO2 emissions at its salt production site at Hengelo in the Netherlands by increasing its use of bio-steam produced by waste processing company Twence.
Type: News
Petronas agrees partnership to develop oil industry chemicals
PETRONAS Chemicals Group (PCG) and Scomi Energy Services have agreed to work together to research, develop and sell chemicals for the oil and gas sectors.
Type: News
Whitehaven Coal says it will survive lower-carbon future
WHITEHAVEN Coal, Australia’s largest independent coal producer, expects to survive a range of lower-carbon policy scenarios, according to findings in its inaugural holistic sustainability report.
Type: News
Husky receives approval for refinery rebuild
HUSKY Energy has received the required permit approvals to move forward with its more than US$400m rebuild of its refinery in Superior, Wisconsin, US. Work is to begin immediately.
Type: News
Vale to invest in technology to reduce dam use and increase safety
BRAZILIAN mining giant Vale is to invest in technology to reduce tailings dam use and increase operational safety.
Type: News
Nouryon and Ineos Nitriles start work on new chelates plants
NOURYON and Ineos Nitriles have started construction of new facilities in Germany that will produce raw materials for Nouryon’s biodegradable chelates.
Type: News
Collaboration looks at powering Singapore data centres with hydrogen
KEPPEL Data Centres and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Asia Pacific (MHI-AP) have signed a memorandum of understanding to investigate the use of hydrogen to power data centres in Singapore.
Type: News
Dow to build new MDI facility in Texas
DOW has announced that it will build a new methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) facility in Texas, US.
Type: News
Fire at Thailand chemicals facility
AN EXPLOSION and fire at a chemicals facility in Bangkok has killed one person and injured more than 60 others.
Type: News
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.
Type: News
Shell sells Permian business to ConocoPhillips
SHELL has announced the sale of its Permian assets to ConocoPhillips for US$9.5bn.
Type: News
Novel process could recycle PVDC
SOLVAY has shown that polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) has the potential to be recycled and is now calling for collaboration to realise PVDC recycling at an industrial global scale.
Type: News
Thyssenkrupp to install green hydrogen facility for Shell
THYSSENKRUPP has signed a contract with Shell to supply a 200 MW green hydrogen facility in the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Type: News
Shell awards EPC contract for Malaysian gas project
SHELL’s Malaysian business has awarded the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for the offshore platform of its Rosmari-Marjoram gas project to Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMHE), an energy industry and marine solutions provider.
Type: News
TAKING a step in developing a UK lithium supply chain, natural resources company Weardale Lithium has announced successful extraction of lithium carbonate from geothermal brines in County Durham. The company said it was the first time that lithium carbonate had been produced from geothermal brines in the North East of England.
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Biotech secures £9m to expand collagen-based biomaterial for the fashion industry
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE spinout PACT has secured £9m (US$12m) to scale the production of its “versatile” biomaterial made from natural collagen.
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