Austria

As 2023 passed without any major shortages, concerns have emerged regarding the potential for impending crises in 2024.

Messer, the world’s largest privately owned industrial gas specialist, is teaming up with a manufacturer of inorganic chemicals to pioneer innovative carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) at a plant in Landeck, Austria, leveraging Sulzer’s advanced...

Upper Austria’s Gampern is set to become a hub for green energy, with RAG Austria AG (RAG) partnering with INNIO Group (INNIO) to deploy hydrogen engine technology. Their joint venture aims to breathe life into...

The recently announced coalition, named Carbon Capture and Storage Europe, includes major players in the carbon capture industry including technology providers, project developers and environmental NGOs.

Battery technology continues to advance. New chemistries are regularly introduced that quickly supplant older technologies as the race continues to produce batteries that are safer, more powerful, and requiring fewer rare and expensive elements.

With recent reports that the US is to introduce legislation between utilisation and sequestration, capture and recovery is a hot topic within the industrial gas sector.

Presented with the prospect of supply limitations associated with traditional CO2 sources, industry is looking to diversify sourcing and also attempt to decarbonise its processes to help drive a circular economy.

As a major by-product of ammonia production, the global CO2 industry is heavily reliant on the fertiliser sector. Following closures of major UK plants and continued disruptions in production, fears arose around the potential for...

Soaring gas prices, ever tightening margins in ammonia markets, temporary plant closures, maintenance downtime; these are all major factors that have been – and continue to be – contributing to an increasingly volatile carbon dioxide...

Germany fast-tracks LNG facilities to safeguard energy supplies.