Biofuels
REG to acquire US biodiesel refiner Imperium
REG will acquire all the assets of Imperium, including a 100-million gal capacity biomass-based diesel refinery and deepwater port terminal at the Port of Grays Harbor, Washington.
HP Innovations
Endress+Hauser’s Loading Metering Skid (LMS) is a solution for the custody transfer of light hydrocarbons—including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and marine gas—to and from tanker trucks, railcars and ships.
Neste supplies NEXBTL renewable diesel to global UPS trucking fleet
NEXBTL renewable diesel is a low-carbon renewable fuel that meets US national, California and other diesel specifications for use in diesel engines while realizing the benefits of better performance, and lower emissions. It is sold to fleets, refining companies and fuel distributors around the world.
INVISTA, Plaxica work to commercialize bio-based lactic acid technology
The two companies will work together to develop and commercialize Plaxica’s lactic acid technology, which the companies believe will offer substantial cost and performance benefits to licensees in the polylactic acid and bio-propylene glycol value chains.
HP News
Recent news events in the global HPI.
HP New Developments
New product developments in the hydrocarbon processing industry.
Pacific Ethanol finalizes US merger with Aventine Renewable Energy
Added to Pacific Ethanol's current ethanol production capacity of 200 million gal/year, the combined company will have a total ethanol production capacity of 515 million gal/year.
Amyris successfully tests renewable diesel in cars
The program demonstrated fuel economy that was similar to or improved over petroleum-based fuels, together while maintaining outstanding engine performance under a variety of conditions.
Ensus to cut 22% of jobs at idled UK biofuels site
The Teeside plant, one of the largest in Europe with 400,000 cubic meters of annual bio-ethanol capacity, was closed temporarily in February due to adverse market conditions.
Neste, Total to develop bio-solvents, technical fluids for downstream
Total Fluides will market a new line of renewable fluids for numerous applications such as paints and coatings, drilling fluids, solvents for emulsion polymerization, printing ink fluids, emollients for cosmetics and many others industrial and automotive fluids.
- Studi Tecnologie Progetti S.p.A. signs agreement to upgrade Attock refinery in Pakistan for $600 MM 7/1
- Maire's NEXTCHEM awarded engineering contract for Pacifico Mexinol's $3.3-B, 2.1-MMtpy low-carbon methanol project 7/1
- Axens, IFPEN, and SMS group Launch Carboverseo™: Essential Technology for e-fuels deployment 7/1
- BASF closes purchase of DOMO Chemicals’ shares in Alsachimie JV 7/1
- deugro completes another equipment shipment for INEOS' Project One project in Belgium 7/1
- Shell renews contract with Cyberhawk, enabling a global visualization and data integration platform across its portfolio 7/1
