Ethane

EU

EU signs off on €3.7bn Czech biomethane production subsidies

The European Commission has approved a €3.7bn ($4.36bn) Czech government funding scheme to scale sustainable biomethane production amid the net-zero emissi…

Methane

California regulator conditionally approves first RNG contract under state biomethane procurement programme

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has conditionally approved a long-term biomethane procurement contract between Anaergia's SoCal Biomethane…

United States

California Approves First SB 1440 RNG Supply Project for Pipeline Injection

The California Public Utilities Commission has conditionally approved a long-term renewable natural gas (RNG) supply contract tied to Anaergia’s SoCal Biometha…

Centrica Energy and Seneca Resources Sign Long-Term MiQ Methane Emissions Certificate Agreement

Centrica Energy and Seneca Resources have recently entered into a 10-year agreement involving the procurement of MiQ-certified natural gas certificates, aimed a…

Canada

Canada Unveils New Rules to Lower Oil and Gas Methane Emissions

Canada released new regulations on December 16, 2025, designed to significantly lower methane emissions from its oil and gas industry.These measures set a cours…

Methane

Spain’s Solarig to Invest Over $400 Million in Biomethane Plants in Poland

Spanish renewable energy developer Solarig announced on Monday a planned investment exceeding 1.5 billion zloty, equivalent to approximately 415 million U.S. do…

China

Seaspan Poised to Enter Ethane Carrier Business

Seaspan Corporation has signed a memorandum of cooperation with Cosco Shipping LNG, CSSC Trading, and Jiangnan Shipyard to develop up to six 100,000-cubic-metre…

Germany

BASF and ExxonMobil Collaborate on Methane Pyrolysis Technology

BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and ExxonMobil (Houston, Texas) announced on Monday a strategic collaboration to advance methane pyrolysis technology, a step towar…

LNG

Jade Secures Preliminary Funding Deal for Mongolian CBM-To-LNG Project

Zhengzhou Langrun Intelligent Equipment Co Ltd has signed a non-binding letter of intent to provide up to USD 46 million (AUD 70 million) in financing for a coa…

France

INEOS Inovyn Announces Mothballing of Chloromethane Production Facility in France

INEOS Inovyn, headquartered in London, announced that it has decided to mothball its chloromethane production facility in Tavaux, France. The company explained …

Biofuel

Hapag-Lloyd Picks Shell Bio-LNG for Its Green Containership Fleet

German container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd and Shell Western LNG, a Netherlands-based marine fuel supplier and indirect subsidiary of Shell, have signed a mu…

Coal Mine

China’s Largest Coalbed Methane Field Sees Output Top 4 Billion Cubic Meters

As of the end of August, China’s first large-scale coalbed methane field, the Daning-Jixian block in northern Shanxi Province, reached a cumulative produc…

Switzerland

Clariant to Supply Catalysts to Sypox for World’s Largest Electric Steam Methane Reformer

Clariant AG, based in Muttenz, Switzerland, has announced a supply agreement with SYPOX to produce and deliver catalysts for what is expected to become the worl…

Methane

HAMR Energy’s Flagship Green Methanol Project Gains Ground

Australian chemicals company HAMR Energy has progressed its Portland Renewable Fuels Project in Victoria with the completion of the pre-front-end engineering de…

Japan

Asahi Kasei Demonstrates Biomethane Production Using Novel Biogas Purification System

Asahi Kasei Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan, completed a demonstration trial of an innovative biogas purification system at the Kojima Sewage Treatment Plant…