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United Arab Emirates

Dubai’s RTA Awards Contract to Upgrade DACC Terminal 1 Access Bridge

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), in collaboration with Dubai Aviation City Corporation (DACC), has signed a contract to expand and upgrade the brid…

United States

Kao Corp. Completes New Tertiary Amine Facility in Texas

On August 22, 2025, Kao Corp., based in Tokyo, held an opening ceremony for its new tertiary amine production facility in Pasadena, Texas. With an annual produc…

Thermal Coal

China’s Seaborne Thermal Coal Imports Jump as India’s Stumble

China’s imports of seaborne thermal coal are set to reach their highest level this year in August, while India’s imports have fallen to the lowest point in th…

United Kingdom

STRABAG Consortium Secures Contract for £3BN Water Project in UK

The consortium of STRABAG, Equitix, and GLIL Infrastructure has been awarded a contract by United Utilities to deliver the £3 billion ($4.02 billion) Hawe…

Turkey

Wood Awarded Contract for Turkey’s Largest Polypropylene Plant

Wood plc, headquartered in Aberdeen, U.K., is providing project management consultancy (PMC) services for the development of Turkey’s largest polypropylen…

Singapore

Dell Technologies Launches Asia Pacific & Japan AI Innovation Hub in Singapore

Dell Technologies has launched its new Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) AI Innovation Hub (AIIH) in Singapore during the Dell Technologies Forum. The AIIH, an extensi…

Metal

Energy Fuels Produces 99.9% Pure Dysprosium Oxide at Utah Mill

Energy Fuels has produced its first kilogram of dysprosium (Dy) oxide with a purity of 99.9% at the White Mesa Mill in Utah, surpassing the commercial specifica…

Germany

Port of Hamburg Marks New Multi-Purpose Terminal Digitalization Milestone

UNIKAI, part of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG, and AKQUINET completed the AKIDU project, enhancing digitalization at the Port of Hamburg’s O’Swald…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Taiwan Nuclear Plant Re-Opening Vote Fails as Approval Threshold Missed

On Saturday, a referendum to reopen the Maanshan nuclear power plant in southern Taiwan failed to meet the required voter threshold. The vote, proposed by the T…

Thermal Plant

Brazil Plans to Ask Power Plants to Bid on Supplying Capacity

Brazil’s government has announced plans to conduct two rounds of bidding in 2026 for hydroelectric and fossil-fuel thermal power plants to enhance electricity …

Carbon Storage

Northern Lights: Third and Fourth LNG-Fueled LCO2 Carriers See First Light of Day

China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry (DSIC), part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), has launched two new liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) car…

United States

OCOChem and Adm to Build CO2 Electrolysis Demonstration Plant in Illinois

OCOchem, based in Richland, Washington, has signed a production partnership agreement with ADM Company of Chicago to construct a demonstration plant using OCOch…

SMR

Sweden’s Vattenfall Shortlists Rolls-Royce, GE Vernova to Build SMR Nuclear Reactors

On Thursday, Vattenfall selected Britain’s Rolls-Royce SMR and U.S.-based GE Vernova to supply small modular nuclear reactors for its Ringhals plant in so…

China

China Suspends Argentine Poultry Imports Five Months After Ban Lifted

China suspended imports of Argentine poultry products on August 20, 2025, five months after lifting a two-year ban, following Argentina’s export pause due…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

US Prolongs Michigan Coal Plant’s Operation Until November Despite Costs

The U.S. Energy Department extended an order for the J.H. Campbell coal plant in West Olive, Michigan, to remain operational until November 19, 2025. The 1,500-…