Chemical

Energy Storage Battery

Australian Lithium Hydroxide Plant Focuses on Batteries

Australia's newly commissioned Kwinana downstream lithium plant has produced chemical-grade lithium hydroxide and is now focusing on the output of battery-grade…

Energy Storage Battery

China's Jiangsu Lopal to Build Iron Phosphate Plant

Chinese chemicals manufacturer Jiangsu Lopal Tech will form a joint venture with agricultural products and fertiliser company Xinyangfeng to produce iron phosph…

Hydrogen Project

Japan’s ‘Hydrogen Olympics’ the Latest Stumble for Hydrogen Energy

It took some chemical wizardry, but the Olympic cauldron in Japan leapt to life not with natural gas or some other traditional fuel.

Gas turbine engine

Hanwha, Korea Western Power Team up to Fuel Gas Turbines on Hydrogen

Hanwha General Chemical Co. and Korea Western Power Co. have joined forces to develop a hydrogen-fired gas turbine that can use both liquefied natural gas and h…

India

India’s Adani Sets up Petrochemical Subsidiary

Major Indian conglomerate Adani Enterprises has set up a new subsidiary, Adani Petrochemicals, to invest in refineries, petrochemical complexes, specialty chemi…

LNG

China's Guangdong Starts Building $1 bln Huizhou Gas Terminal

ExxonMobil entered in September 2018 a preliminary deal with Guangdong province to invest billions of dollars worth of projects in the manufacturing hub, includ…

Electric Vehicle Battery

BASF, Porsche Partner on Battery Development

German chemicals producer BASF and Cellforce Group, a joint venture between Porsche and Custom Cells, have agreed to develop high-performance battery cells for …

Oil Refinery

Iraq Signs Al Faw Refinery Deal with China's CNCEC

Iraq has decided to award a long-awaited contract to build a new 300,000 b/d integrated refining and petrochemicals complex on the southern Al Faw peninsula to …

Hydrogen Fuel Stations

Lotte Chemical to Invest ₩4.4 trillion in Hydrogen by 2030; Releases New Hydrogen Roadmap

South Korean-based Lotte Chemical has unveiled its 2030 hydrogen growth roadmap which outlines the company’s intentions in accelerating hydrogen adoption and a…

CCS

Sinopec Launches China's First Megaton CCUS Project

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation announced on July 5 that it will start the construction of China's first megaton carbon capture, utilization and storage …

Crude Oil

PetroVietnam & Kuwait Petroleum International Sign Agreement

Kuwait Petroleum International and PetroVietnam signed a cooperation agreement that aims at re-focusing their refining and petrochemicals strategies.

Nuclear Power Plant

Polish Industrial Firms Team up for Small Reactor Deployment

Polish chemicals group Synthos and petrochemical firm PKN Orlen have agreed to cooperate on micro modular reactors and small modular reactors.

Crude Oil

Libya’s May Oil Revenues up to Record Levels Due to Increased Demand and Prices

The NOC announced yesterday that its net revenues during May 2021 from the sales of crude oil, gas, condensates, oil products and petrochemicals amounted to rec…

Hydrogen Project

Hyosung Group and Linde Korea Start to Build Liquefied Hydrogen Plant in Ulsan

Hyosung Heavy Industries and Linde Korea held a groundbreaking ceremony for a liquefied hydrogen plant at Hyosung Chemical’s Yongyeon Plant in Ulsan on June 21…

Nuclear Reactor

Rosatom Starts Construction of Unique Power Unit with BREST-OD-300 fast Neutron Reactor

The construction of a 300 MW nuclear power unit enabled with the innovative BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast reactor has begun at the site of the Siberian Chemical…