Europe

BASF starts up the world’s first production plant for 3D-printed catalysts in Ludwigshafen

Haffner Energy receives rapid bookings for CORE100 clean-fuel production units

bp agrees to sell 12-MMtpy Gelsenkirchen refinery to Klesch Group

TotalEnergies starts production at France’s first advanced plastics recycling plant

TotalEnergies has launched France’s first advanced plastics recycling plant, with a capacity of 15,000 tpy, at its Grandpuits site southeast of Paris. This start-up marks another step in the conversion of the refinery into a zero-crude platform.

Russia's Novatek to maximize naphtha exports in March amid Asia shortage

Rising production in Ust-Luga and easing ice conditions in the Baltic Sea will allow Novatek to boost naphtha exports to Asian markets, where supply challenges due to the Gulf conflict have sent prices to record highs.

Evos Rotterdam commences methanol and ethanol expansion project

Slovakia considers higher diesel price for foreigners to battle fuel tourism

European airlines plan challenge to EU synthetic jet fuel rules

Neste commissions largest upgrading facility for liquefied waste plastic, scales up chemical recycling

Equinor has no spare oil and gas capacity, CEO says

The U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran and the latter's retaliatory strikes across the Middle East have disrupted around a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas supply along the Strait of Hormuz, a key chokepoint for Gulf state exports.