Engineering & Design
U.S. crude and gasoline stockpiles fall as refining ramps up
U.S. crude oil stockpiles fell unexpectedly last week as exports rose and refiners continued to increase activity, while gasoline inventories decreased more than expected.
Mingca Packaging and ExxonMobil introduce innovative double bubble polyethylene-based shrink film solution
Shantou Mingca Packaging Co Ltd and ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Research & Development Co., Ltd announced an innovative double bubble Polyethylene-based Shrink Film solution, the next generation of Polyolefin Shrink Film, created using ultra-low density Exceed XP performance polyethylene.
New Energy Blue forms New Energy Chemicals to sustainably produce bio-sourced ethylene for carbon-zero jet fuel and Dow’s renewable plastics
New Energy Blue, the clean-energy developer of lowest-carbon biofuel and biochemicals from crop residues, advances its Decarbonizing America agenda by forming New Energy Chemicals.
Clariant and Lummus awarded catalyst tech contract for new isobutane dehydrogenation plant in China
Clariant and its process partner Lummus Technology have been selected by Huizhou Boeko Materials Co. Ltd., to provide their CATOFIN catalyst and process technology for the dehydrogenation of isobutane at the new plant in Huizhou City, China.
DHL Express and Standard Chartered partner to co-invest in SAF
DHL Express has signed a strategic partnership with Standard Chartered for DHL Express's GoGreen Plus service in which the two organizations have agreed to co-invest in SAF.
ABEL Energy accelerates Townsville green methanol for Singapore MPA's shipping fuel
ABEL Energy completed the Singapore Port MPA tender for the supply of green methanol and was pleased to hear the recent news from Hon PM Albanese that a green and digital shipping corridor is being established, which will help decarbonize and digitalize shipping routes between Singapore and Australia.
New ASEAN Energy and ACTUAL sign cooperation agreement to develop net-zero plan for the new $5-B Pengerang Energy Complex
New ASEAN Energy and ACTUAL have formed an agreement, leveraging ACTUAL’s AI-driven capital planning technology to develop a comprehensive net-zero emissions strategy for The Pengerang Energy Complex.
TES partners with 7 large international companies to create a global e-NG coalition
TES has entered into an MOU with other large international companies to sponsor the creation of a global coalition, the e-NG Coalition, which is exclusively dedicated to electric natural gas (e-NG or e-natural gas), also referred to as e-methane.
bp's Indiana (U.S.) refinery back to normal operations after Feb outage
bp’s 435,000-bpd Whiting, Indiana (U.S.), refinery has returned to normal operations for the first time since a February plantwide power outage.
Belgian government delays export fuel quality legislation
The Belgian government could pass its proposed legislation to tighten the quality of exported fuels as late as June now, missing its previous target of the second half of March 2024.

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