Singapore – Shell Singapore sells it energy and chemicals park to a joint venture company between the Indonesion company Chandra Asri Capital and commodity trader Glencore. The deal comprises its integrated refining and chemicals assets on Pulau Bukom and Jurong Island. The Pulau Bukom assets include a 237,000 barrels-per-day refinery and a 1.1 million tonnes-a-year […]

Belgium – Indaver has successfully made the first products at its new pre-treatment facility in Willebroek. Pretreatment of plastic waste streams is essential in the recycling process, especially for plastics that cannot be mechanically recycled, the company says. Indaver wants to make these end-of-life waste plastics suitable for chemical recycling. The pretreatment process consists of […]

Denmark – Everfuel, a producer of green hydrygen has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with a large industrial offtaker in Germany for the supply of up to 10,000 tons of green hydrogen per year from 2028. The undisclosed customer expects to increase consumption of green hydrogen over time in accordance with its plans for […]

Spain – BASF plans to expand the global production capacity of its Basoflux® range of paraffin inhibitors at its site in Tarragona, Spain. This investment will enable BASF’s Oilfield Chemicals business to meet the current and future demand of novel paraffin inhibitors for the Oil & Gas industry. Additional assets will create efficiencies and flexibility […]

Sweden – FlagshipTWO, Sweden’s second large-scale production facility of green electrofuel (eMethanol), has received the environmental permit for its planned operations in Sundsvall, Sweden. The facility is expected to be ready for production in 2027. FlagshipTWO is Liquid Wind’s second eFuel project for the production of eMethanol. The facilityhas been granted approval to produce up […]

Germany – International Process Plants (IPP), a global leader in the purchase and sale of process plants and equipment, brings the ammonia, methanol and melamine plants at BASF’s Verbund site in Ludwigshafen on the market. The plants became available through the restructuring BASF announced in 2023. BASF will continue to produce ammonia and methanol at […]

Sweden – Stockholm Exergi signed a contract with Microsoft covering 3.33 million tonnes of permanent carbon removals from bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) at Värtan, Stockholm. The deliveries of the carbon removal certificates to Microsoft are planned to start in 2028 and continue for a period of ten years. The agreement with Microsoft […]

Belgium/Namibia – During a state visit by the Belgian King to Namibia, the Port of Antwerp-Bruges and Namibia’s port authority, Namport, signed an agreement. The two parties want to jointly build a new port north of the Walvis Bay facilities. The new port should become a hub for green industry and logistics, storage and bunkering […]

Denmark / Germany – Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Uniper enter partnership to bring green hydrogen  from CIP’s HØST PtX Esbjerg project to Germany. The partnership will drive collaboration on the production, transport, and marketing of green hydrogen. It is expected that HØST as ultimo 2028, will be connected to the German hydrogen backbone via […]

Sweden – Linde will invest approximately $150 million to build, own and operate an on-site air separation unit (ASU) in Boden, northern Sweden. Linde will supply oxygen, nitrogen and argon to H2 Green Steel’s integrated plant, which will use the latest technology to reduce carbon emissions by up to 95% compared to traditional steelmaking. Linde’s […]

United Kingdom –  bp has signed an eight-year offtake agreement with Circtec, a technology company that develops and operates innovative pyrolysis chemical process technology and whose plants convert hard-to-recycle waste tyres into renewable drop-in marine fuel, and circular naphtha petrochemical feedstock. Under the agreement bp is committed to purchasing up to 60,000 tonnes per year […]

Brussels – The European Commission is awarding nearly €720 million to seven renewable hydrogen projects in Europe, selected through the first competitive bidding process under the European Hydrogen Bank. The funds for this auction come from the revenues of the EU Emissions Trading System. The winning bidders will produce renewable hydrogen in Europe and will […]

Germany – LyondellBasell is to develop an integrated hub for plastic waste recycling south of an existing industrial park in Knapsack, Germany. To this end, the company signed a land lease agreement with Yncoris. The integrated recycling hub will have a total area of some 20 soccer fields. At the hub, LyondellBasell plans to combine […]

Germany – Uniper unveiled their Climate Transition Plan to accelerate the transformation into a greener company. Carbon neutrality across the entire value chain will be achieved by 2040. For the scope 1 and 2 emissions specifically, carbon neutrality is planned already by 2035. Key pillar is the transformation of Uniper´s portfolio. This includes phasing out […]

Sweden –  Carbon Clean, specialised in carbon capture solutions, has achieved a fabrication milestone on Ørsted’s FlagshipONE project, Europe’s largest commercial-scale eMethanol facility under construction. The first equipment has been mounted on the structural steel of the first module, marking the start of the module assembly process. Once operational, Carbon Clean’s technology will be capable […]

China – Domo Chemicals, a world leader in technical polyamide materials, is opening a new plant in Haiyan, China. With the new plant, Domo is responding to the increasing demand for solutions based on its TECHNYL polyamides in the Chinese market. With the €14 million investment, the company is doubling its capacity in China in […]

Belgium – Fluxys hydrogen, a subsidiary of Fluxys Belgium, will operate the hydrogen transmission grid in Belgium for the next 20 years. Fluxys hydrogen’s mission is to develop a pipeline network throughout Belgium. The appointment as “HNO” – Hydrogen Network Operator for Belgium – is a milestone to realize the energy transition. Based on Fluxys’ […]

Belgium – Ineos Oligomers has opened a new solar farm to provide CO2 free electricity to its production site at Feluy Belgium. The solar farm has an area of 2 hectares, produces 3.8 MW and will save 800 tonnes of CO2 per year. This is an important step for the Feluy site in its goal […]

Norway –  The Research Council of Norway unveiled plans to invest 180 MNOK in the establishment of a ground-breaking research centre, known as gigaCCS, dedicated to carbon capture, transport, and storage (CCS) technology.   With an eight-year timeline spanning from 2025 to 2032, gigaCCS aims to build upon the successes of its predecessor, NCCS, to […]

Belgium – Belgium and Norway have signed a letter of intent to enable the transport of CO2 between the two countries.  This initiative opens the door for companies to start projects and conclude contracts related to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). The agreement between Belgium and Norway allows companies to capture CO2 and transport it […]

Germany – Shell Deutschland has commissioned a new bio-LNG (liquid biomethane) production plant at the Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland. The plant is the largest of its kind in Germany and can produce about 100,000 tons of this fuel annually. Shell is targeting freight transport with this fuel. Felix Faber, Managing Director of Shell Germany […]

Germany – NGK INSULATORS has received an order from BASF Stationary Energy Storage (BSES), a subsidiary of BASF, for NAS Batteries for a large-scale green hydrogen production project, developed by HH2E, a German green hydrogen producer. The NAS batteries that have been ordered have a maximum output of 18 megawatts and a capacity of 104.4megawatt-hours […]

Germany – Salzgitter AG and Uniper SE sign pre-contract for the supply and purchase of green hydrogen. This is to be produced in the large-scale electrolysis plant planned by Uniper, which is scheduled to be commissioned in Wilhelmshaven in 2028. The green hydrogen will be required for the SALCOS® – Salzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking program […]

Germany – Pearl Group, an international leader in polyurethane (PU) insulation solutions and other PU-based applications, has launched Pearl Deutschland in Leverkusen, Germany. This strategic expansion is the latest development in Pearl’s ambitious PearlX2 strategy, which aims to double the organisation’s size by 2026.  Following the acquisition of Covestro’s majority stake in the joint venture […]

Germany – Vattenfall and BASF have agreed on the sale of 49 percent of Vattenfall’s Nordlicht 1 and 2 wind farms to BASF. The Nordlicht wind project is being built in the German North Sea without state subsidies and, with a total installed capacity of 1.6  gigawatts, will be the largest offshore wind farm project […]

Neste successfully conducted its first processing trial run with liquefied discarded tires. In the processing run, Neste produced high-quality raw material for new plastics and chemicals. For the processing run, Neste sourced pyrolysis oil derived from discarded vehicle tires by Scandinavian Enviro Systems, a Swedish company developing technologies to recover materials from end-of-life products. The […]

The Netherlands – Spanish energy company Cepsa has signed an agreement with Evos, a leading liquid energy and chemical storage company with hubs in strategic locations across Europe, to enable the storage of green methanol to be produced by Cepsa at Evos’ storage facilities in Algeciras and Rotterdam. The partnership, which also provides for the […]

Belgium – The competitive position of the Belgian chemical and life science sector has weakened significantly over the past year. The sector is struggling with a historically low capacity utilization rate, a 14% decline in turnover and an 18% decline in exports according to the 2023 annual figures of the sector federation essenscia. The advocacy […]

Germany – BASF, SABIC, and Linde have inaugurated the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnaces. Following three years of development, engineering, and construction work, the regular operation of the demonstration plant is now ready to start at BASF’s Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. In March 2021, the three companies signed a […]

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Belgium – The CEOs of the port companies of Antwerp-Bruges, North Sea Port, Duisburg and Rotterdam are calling on European government leaders to work together to find a solution to the industry’s deteriorating position. On the eve of the European Industry Summit, they underline the importance of the recently drafted Antwerp Declaration. The CEOs are […]

Finland – Borealis invests  4.5 million euro in the cracker furnaces of its olefins unit in Porvoo Finland. This investment ensures that the Porvoo steam cracker can increase the share of renewable and recycled raw materials used in its  (ethylene and propylene) production. The investment program is expected to be completed in 2025. The Porvoo steam […]