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Enilive has announced the commissioning of its first plant to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at the Gela biorefinery, in Sicily. Production has started at the plant, which has a capacity of 400,000 tonnes per year, representing almost a third of the expected European SAF demand in 2025, following the implementation of the ReFuelEU Aviation regulation. Regulation (EU) 2023/2405 requires…
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LanzaJet has announced its next SAF production facility (Project Speedbird) is to be located in Teesside’s Wilton International (UK). LanzaJet has partnered with Sembcorp Utilities (UK) Limited, a wholly-owned entity of Sembcorp Industries Ltd, to develop an ethanol-to-SAF facility at Wilton International. Through a collaboration with British Airways, Project Speedbird will produce over 90,000…
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Evos has installed over 1,500 new solar panels at its Amsterdam West terminal, which now has 1,700 panels in place with an estimated annual generation of 650 MWh. The system will deliver an estimated peak capacity of 770 kWp. Alongside the solar panels, the company have added 12 new electric vehicle (EV) charging points, increasing the total to 17, and making green transportation even more…
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Aker Solutions has entered a strategic partnership agreement to deliver maintenance and modification services on Vår Energi operated assets and projects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The partnership also includes Honeywell and StS-ISONOR, and builds on an already established collaboration model with clear incentives to work as an integrated team towards common goals. The contract…
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Barcelona Port authorities have reported that one person has died and one person was injured on Tuesday morning after an explosion occurred, reports Catalan News. The fire has since been put out. UPDATE: Tepsa's Barcelona terminal is now operating as normal. Tepsa has shared a statement on LinkedIn following the tank explosion in Barcelona Port. The company says:' Immediately after the event,…
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Exolum and Adif have signed an agreement to explore the creation of a railway logistics network for liquid bulk transport. The companies have joined forces to study the development of a railway logistics network for transporting essential products for decarbonisation, such as captured CO2, e-fuels, and biofuels. This collaboration will not only leverage existing infrastructures, significantly…
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INEOS has received the module containing the first two furnaces destined for Project ONE’s new ethane cracker at the quay of the construction site in Lillo, Antwerp, Belgium. The arrival of this module is an important milestone in the realisation of INEOS’ investment in a new chemical plant in Antwerp. The furnaces form the heart of the ethane cracker under construction: in the furnace…
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Bilfinger has expanded its regional engineering capabilities by integrating approximately 200 employees from McDermott’s Brno, Czech Republic, office into Bilfinger Engineering & Maintenance Central Eastern Europe (Bilfinger E&M CEE). This strategic move will enhance Bilfinger's expertise in plant engineering, carbon capture, green hydrogen, and sustainable aviation fuel facilities.…
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ADNOC and AIQ have announced the successful proof-of-concept trial of ENERGYai, the world’s first-of-its-kind agentic artificial intelligence (AI) solution tailored for the energy sector. ENERGYai integrates a 70-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) with over 50 years of ADNOC’s knowledge and petabytes of its proprietary data, to drive optimisation and efficiency across the…
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Gulf Energy Development has received its inaugural liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo on January 6, 2025, for Gulf LNG Company (Gulf LNG). This inaugural LNG shipment to Gulf Group’s gas-fired power plants marks a significant milestone, and underscores the commitment to the state’s gas market deregulation policy, which aims to foster competition, enhance energy security, increase flexibility…
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Evos Hamburg GmbH has launched DigiTank, a research initiative supported by the IHATEC II programme, to revolutionise tank storage logistics. By addressing challenges such as environmental risks, operational inefficiencies, and workforce shortages, DigiTank integrates advanced technologies like digital twins, artificial intelligence, and robotics to create safer, more efficient, and…
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Shell has announced the Northern Pathfinder, one of the world’s first liquefied CO₂ carriers for large-scale CCS, to Singapore. In a post on LinkedIn, Shell explained that The Northern Pathfinder is designed to safely transport up to 7,500 m³ liquefied CO₂ from capture sites in Europe to the Northern Lights JV CO₂’s receiving terminal, and is one of four ships that will form the…
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its Energy Transition Fund (CI ETF I), and Friesen Elektra Green Energy AG (Friesen Elektra) have initiated project Anker, a green hydrogen production facility in Sande, Germany. The project is scheduled to have an electrolysis capacity of 400 MW with plans to expand capacity to 800 MW at a later stage. Project Anker is strategically located near…
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The Ministry of Energy has awarded Equinor 27 new production licences in this year's awards in Predefined Areas (APA). Equinor was awarded 20 licences in the North Sea, six in the Norwegian Sea and one in the Barents sea. Equinor is the operator of seven of the licences and a partner in 20. Jez Averty, Equinor's senior vice president for subsurface, the Norwegian continental shelf says: ‘There…
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Gasunie is to sign new ten-year framework contracts with three contractors (consortiums), namely DES (Dura Vermeer/Equans), Bilfinger and Hanab. Together the contracts represent an investment volume of up to €2.5 billion, spread over a period of ten years. These contracts set out very specific agreements on the replacement, maintenance and expansion of stations and installations required for…
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Vitol has announced that Jeffrey van Geloof has been appointed CEO of WPU. In a post on LinkedIn, Vitol noted that Jeffrey has extensive commercial and operational experience, most recently as managing director of Vitol’s VPR refinery, based in Rotterdam, where he has been instrumental in bringing about significant technical innovation and efficiency to the operation of the refinery. These…
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CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Company Limited (CSPC), a joint venture between Shell Nanhai B.V. and CNOOC Petrochemicals Investment Ltd, has taken a final investment decision to expand its petrochemical complex in Daya Bay, Huizhou, south China. The expansion will include a third ethylene cracker with a planned capacity of 1.6 million tonnes per year of ethylene, a key building block to make…
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TotalEnergies (45%, operator) and its partners Basra Oil Company (30%) and QatarEnergy (25%) have launched the construction works of ArtawiGas25, a first processing facility for the associated gas from the Ratawi field, located in the Basra region, Iraq. This facility, which is part of the Gas Growth Integrated Project (GGIP), represents an investment of around $250 million (€242 million) and…
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Gasunie’s Supervisory Board has appointed Jan Boekelman interim CFO with effect from 11 February 2025. Boekelman, who was previously CFO at Energie Beheer Nederland (EBN) and development organisation SNV, will be taking over from Janneke Hermes, who is joining Koninklijke Wagenborg after 23 years at Gasunie. Boekelman will start working at Gasunie with immediate effect, so that he and Hermes…
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Essar Energy Transition (ETT) has an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with ENKA, for its flagship low carbon hydrogen production plant (HPP1) at the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, UK. In October 2024, the UK Government announced funding had been agreed to support HPP1 as the UK’s first large-scale low carbon hydrogen project at the heart of…
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