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1. Air Liquide Increases Its Presence In Kazakhstan With A Significant Acquisition And Long-Term Contract 3/2/2021

   Air Liquide increases its presence in Kazakhstan through its 75% owned joint venture Air Liquide Munay Tech Gases (ALMTG). The joint venture will invest up to 86 million euros to acquire hydrogen and nitrogen production units from Atyrau refinery owned by KazMunayGas and to modernize them

2. Lummus Announces Successful Start-Up Of CDAlky Unit At Valero's St. Charles Refinery 3/1/2021

   Lummus Technology today announced the start-up of its CDAlky® C5 alkylation unit at Valero's St. Charles Refinery in Norco, Louisiana. The capacity of the alkylation complex is 17,000 BPSD of Alkylate product

3. Chevron Announces First Gas From The Alen Gas Monetization Project In Equatorial Guinea 2/26/2021

   Noble Energy EG Ltd. (a Chevron Company) has achieved first gas flow from the safe and successful execution of the Alen Gas Monetization Project

4. Hengyi Industries Selects Honeywell Technology For Brunei Petrochemical Complex 2/25/2021

   Honeywell today announced that Hengyi Industries will use advanced reforming and aromatics technologies from Honeywell UOP at its integrated petrochemical complex in Pulau Muara Besar, Brunei. The facility will process 200,000 barrels per day

5. A First In Belgium: INEOS Phenol And ENGIE Use Hydrogen In Industrial Plant In Antwerp 2/25/2021

   For the first time in Belgium, hydrogen will be used in a commercial scale cogeneration plant designed to generate electricity and heat from natural gas. The aim of the pilot project by INEOS and ENGIE is to replace natural gas with hydrogen used by the INEOS gas turbine

6. Gevo And HCS Group Sign Strategic Agreement To Produce Renewable Low-Carbon Chemicals And Sustainable Aviation Fuel In Europe 2/24/2021

   Gevo, Inc. (“Gevo”) (NASDAQ: GEVO), announced today that Gevo and HCS Group GmbH, a long-time customer of Gevo, have signed a project memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) to develop and build a renewable hydrocarbon facility at HCS Group’s site located in Speyer, Germany, which would utilize Gevo’s low-carbon sustainable aviation fuel (“SAF”) technology

7. Saulsbury Awarded EPC Contract For Midland Basin Gas Processing Facility 2/23/2021

   Saulsbury was recently awarded a turnkey EPC contract for the design and installation of a new cryogenic processing facility in the Midland Basin for one of the leading gas processors in West Texas

8. Sumitomo Chemical To License Out High-Pressure Polyethylene Production Technology To A Major Petrochemical Company In Russia 2/22/2021

   Sumitomo Chemical has concluded an agreement with Kazan Organichesky Sintez (KOS), in the Republic of Tatarstan of the Russian Federation, to license out its high-pressure production process for low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) to boost KOS’s polyethylene production

9. New Sensor Paves Way To Low-Cost Sensitive Methane Measurements 2/22/2021

   Researchers have developed a new sensor that could allow practical and low-cost detection of low concentrations of methane gas. Measuring methane emissions and leaks is important to a variety of industries because the gas contributes to global warming and air pollution

10. New Method Converts Methane In Natural Gas To Methanol At Room Temperature 2/18/2021

    Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have discovered a way to convert the methane in natural gas into liquid methanol at room temperature