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BP commits to net zero by 2050
NEW BP Chief Executive Bernard Looney has pledged that BP will reduce its emissions to net zero by 2050 or sooner, and has announced a new structure for the company.
Type: News
Rob Best explains continued efforts to streamline membership applications
Type: Feature
Digital Risk Management: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility
Joanne Tanner and Tristan Hunter introduce a new member-led series on digitalisation, and in this first article discuss how you can help improve digital security
Type: Feature
NIGEL HIRST has become the 82nd President of IChemE. He delivered an Address on 14 June on the “unique and priceless” contribution that chemical engineering can make to the grand challenges and plans for IChemE in the coming year.
Type: News
IChemE Matters: A conversation with Congress
Ahead of the official call for nominations in March, representatives from Congress sat down to discuss why all eligible members regardless of experience should consider putting themselves forward
Type: Feature
IChemE Matters – September 2024
Mark Apsey and Duncan Lugton talk policy and what to expect from Hazards 34
Type: News
Calculating a Path to Net Zero
A chemical engineer working for the UK Government introduces two online net zero calculators that have been launched to aid public understanding and engagement
Type: Feature
SABIC becomes largest shareholder in Clariant
SABIC has become the largest shareholder in specialty chemicals company Clariant. The Saudi chemicals giant has bought a 24.9% stake from the activist investors that thwarted Clariant’s plans to merge with Huntsman, last year.
Type: News
National Grid report says gas can decarbonise heat, transport, and industry
THE UK’s gas and electricity operator, National Grid, has set out its long-term goals in its report The Future of Gas: How gas can support a low carbon future, concluding that gas will play a crucial role in the coming decades but not without clear policies from the government for decarbonising gas.
Type: News
ArcelorMittal to launch project to use hydrogen in steel production
THIS year steel and mining company ArcelorMittal is to launch a project in Hamburg, Germany that will use hydrogen on an industrial scale to directly reduce iron ore for steel production. The company aims to enable low-CO2 steel production.
Type: News
Umicore acquires Europe’s largest cobalt refinery
INTERNATIONAL mining company Freeport-McMoran has agreed to sell Europe’s largest cobalt refinery to Umicore, a global materials and recycling company.
Type: News
Periodic Videos on the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry win
YOUTUBE star and chemist Martyn Poliakoff has published a video looking at lithium-ion batteries, after the technology’s developers scooped a Nobel Prize last week.
Type: News
Novel battery technology project succeeds in proof-of-concept
A COLLABORATIVE project has succeeded in demonstrating proof-of-concept for novel sodium-nickel-chloride battery technology. The £250,000 (US$310,057) project involved innovation centre CPI, Lancaster-based SME LiNa Energy, and the University of Lancaster.
Type: News
BP and Reliance Industries start joint venture in India
BP and Reliance Industries have announced the start of their joint venture, Reliance BP Mobility (RBML), to expand Reliance’s consumer and aviation fuels business.
Type: News
Sustainable battery company gets £2m funding to scale up production
ACELERON has announced that it has received £2m (US$2.6m) in equity investment which will allow it to scale up production of its repairable lithium-ion batteries.
Type: News
Research and industry sign MoUs for Australian offshore CCS hub
AUSTRALIAN energy company Transborders Energy has signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs)with researchers and oil and gas industry leaders to consider co-developing an Australian offshore carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage hub, the deepC Store Project.
Type: News
Total leaves the American Petroleum Institute
TOTAL has become the first oil major to leave the American Petroleum Institute (API), a trade association and lobby group, citing differences in climate policy.
Type: News
Elon Musk puts up US$100m prize for carbon removal tech
TECH billionaire Elon Musk is launching a US$100m prize for innovators who can remove CO2 from the atmosphere and oceans, in a bid to develop technologies capable of scaling massively to gigaton levels.
Type: News
Johnson Matthey set targets to lower waste and improve safety on journey to net zero
JOHNSON MATTHEY has announced targets to heavily focus its sales and R&D spend in line with UN Sustainability Goals, and outlined interim targets to reduce waste and safety incidents on its way to being net zero.
Type: News
Glencore and Britishvolt enter long-term supply agreement
GLENCORE and Britishvolt have signed an agreement for the mining company to supply responsibly-sourced cobalt for the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries.
Type: News
