Chemical

South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA: Sasol and Air Liquide Tender for 600 MW of Green Energy

South African chemical giant Sasol and Air Liquide are launching a request for proposals process for the supply of 600 MW of renewable energy at their Secunda s…

Saudi Arabia

Samsung Engineering Wins a Petrochemical Plant Project in Saudi Arabia

Samsung Engineering announced on April 14 that it has signed a US$650 million contract with a Saudi Arabian petrochemical company to build a profane dehydration…

Electric Car

China's Sinopec, Nio to Build more EV Battery Stations

China's state-controlled oil and petrochemical firm Sinopec and new energy vehicle manufacturer Nio has signed a strategic cooperation agreement to build power …

Energy Storage Battery

Using PET Waste Bottles to Make Batteries

Scientists in the U.S. claim to have successfully upcycled PET waste bottles into an electrochemical active-carbon material that functions as a double‐layer su…

South Korea

Hyosung Group’s Market Cap Soars 70% on the Back of Hydrogen Economy

Their prices jumped sharply as the chemical market entered a perfect upward cycle and Hyosung Group expanded its business to the environmental sector, especiall…

Oil & Gas Trade

Sinopec Signs 10-Year Deal with Qatar Petroleum for 2 m tons of LNG

China Petrochemical Corp, or Sinopec Group, has signed a long-term purchase and sales agreement with Qatar Petroleum to buy 2 million tons of LNG from Qatar Pet…

Nuclear Fuel

TVEL Subsidiary Contracts Supplies of Nuclear Fuel Components for Research Reactor in Egypt

Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant and the Egyptian Atomic Energy Agency signed the contractual documents for supplies of another batch of the low-enriched…

LNG

Repsol Hits Milestone with Fure Vinga LNG Bunkering

Spanish oil company Repsol has reached a milestone as it bunkered Furetank Rederi’s chemical tanker Fure Vinga at Cartagena.

SINOPEC

Sinopec Accelerates Hydrogen Energy Development to Build World-leading Clean Energy Chemical Company

As a secondary source of energy, hydrogen is playing an increasingly important role on the world energy stage.

Nuclear Technology

Rosatom Develops Fast Reactor Fuel, Launches Tender for Pyrochemical Processing Study

The Bochvar Institute has developed a fuel rod design based on nitride uranium-plutonium fuel for the BREST-OD-300 fast neutron reactor.

Hydrogen Fuel Stations

Sinopec to Build more Hydrogen Refueling Stations

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation plans to build about 1,000 hydrogen refueling stations and petrol-hydrogen combined stations in the next five years to pr…

Carbon Emissions

Skies of blue: Recycling Carbon Emissions to Useful Chemicals and Reducing Global Warming

Researchers optimize a novel process for the efficient conversion of carbon emissions into useful chemicals like acetate using microbes

Energy Technology

Researchers Advance New Route to Chemically Recyclable Plastics

As the planet's burden of rubber and plastic trash rises unabated, scientists increasingly look to the promise of closed-loop recycling to reduce waste.

Energy Technology

USTC Obtains Pd-Pt Tesseracts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

A proton exchange membrane fuel cell is a chemical cell that converts energy released when a substance reacts into electrical energy with zero emission. It is a…

Oil Pipeline

China Gas Pipeline in Northern Guangdong Begins Operations

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, said a 238-kilometre natural gas pipeline in the northern part of China's southern province Guangdong has started o…