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Harbour Energy agrees US$11.2bn deal for Wintershall Dea assets
UK OIL producer Harbour Energy has reached an agreement to acquire German rival Wintershall Dea for US$11.2bn in a move expected to transform the firm into one of the world’s largest independent oil and gas companies.
Type: News
Eni and subsidiary Vår Energi to buy Neptune Energy for US$4.9bn
ITALIAN oil major Eni, and its Norwegian listed subsidiary, Vår Energi, have agreed to buy London-headquartered Neptune Energy for US$4.9bn. This is the largest cash deal in the European oil and gas sector for almost a decade, say finance experts.
Type: News
X-energy and Cavendish given £3m to assess Hartlepool ‘gumball’ nuclear reactor
X-ENERGY and Cavendish Nuclear have been awarded £3.34m (US$4.24m) by the UK government to assess how domestic manufacturing could support the construction of a novel small pebble-bed nuclear reactor. The pair want to build 12 reactors in Hartlepool by the early 2030s to help decarbonise local industry.
Type: News
Novel sponge tech collects oil in ultra-cold waters
RESEARCHERS in Canada and the UK have developed a coating for commercially-available sponges that can recover oil droplets from water as cold as 5°C, offering a sustainable and economical method for removing oil from ultracold industrial wastewater and oil spills.
Type: News
Unravelling PFAS: Challenges and Advances in Contaminant Remediation
From industrial applications to environmental concerns, Jim Fenstermacher, Pradeep Shukla, and Prashant Srivastava explore the chemistry of PFAS, emerging capture technologies, and the ongoing efforts to mitigate their impact
Type: Feature
Technip buys BP ethanol-to-ethylene process
Hummingbird increases selectivity, lowers costs
Type: News
RIL develops new benzene extraction process
Commercialises method after creating robust solvent
Type: News
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread?
Estefania Lopez-Quiroga and colleagues look at the potential upsides of scaled-down, decentralised food production
Type: Feature
New integrated, net-negative system captures carbon and produces ethylene
FOCUSED on integrating technologies that capture and use CO2 in a closed loop carbon cycle, engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), US have built a small-scale machine that captures CO2 from flue gas and converts it to ethylene for use in industry.
Type: News
Why the Lessons of the Fulcrum Fiasco must not be Wasted
Fulcrum BioEnergy shut down its flagship waste-to-fuel plant in May. Alex Howard looks at the implications for the waste gasification industry, and how other first-of-a-kind developers can reassure investors moving forward.
Type: Feature
UK relaunches search for a GDF site
The UK has relaunched its search for a site to bury its nuclear waste after previous plans were halted when the local council of a potential site voted to withdraw from the process. The selected site will host a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) for the disposal of higher activity radioactive waste.
Type: News
Internet of Things: A New Era for Biomanufacturing?
Duygu Dikicioglu and Lidia Borgosz explore the opportunities and challenges that will determine the future of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in bioprocessing
Type: Feature
UK Government warned that no-deal Brexit REACH plans are ‘vague and insufficient’
THE UK Government has published draft legislation for chemical registration in the event of a no-deal Brexit, but the proposed plans have come under criticism from the chemicals industry and from the House of Lords.
Type: News
David Gemmell discusses the evolution of continuous and intensified bioprocessing
Type: Feature
BASF will publish carbon footprints for 45,000 products
BASF will release data on the carbon footprints of its entire portfolio of approximately 45,000 products by the end of 2021 as it seeks to help customers measure and reduce emissions through the supply chain.
Type: News
Zheng congratulated by IChemE for insights into Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
ICHEME has congratulated Qingyuan Zheng for publishing a paper in Nature Catalysis based on research he completed during his IChemE Andrew Fellowship.
Type: News
ULC-ENERGY has signed an agreement with Rolls-Royce and Topsoe to collaborate on nuclear-powered hydrogen production.
Type: News
When it comes to human factors, there are lessons the process industries can lean from incidents in other sectors.
Type: Feature
FRENCH energy firm TotalEnergies and Tree Energy Solutions (TES), a Belgian energy start-up, are joining forces to build a US$2bn plant in the US to produce e-natural gas (e-NG), a synthetic gas produced from renewable hydrogen and CO2.
Type: News
New catalysts make H2O2 in one-step process
Could be manufactured on demand in remote areas
Type: News
