Welcome to our April issue, which casts a critical eye over that mainstay of industrial gas production, air gases. It has been an interesting 12 months. The story of air separation units (ASUs), which make most of the world’s air gases, is one that’s tied up with energy – its cost and its sourcing. That’s because ASUs are huge uses of electrons, around the clock and all over the world. So even if the ASU tech that separates out air gases is stable and well-understood and generally predictable, the energy side of the equation is anything but.
German energy company Mabanaft and Porsche-backed Chilean e-fuels developer HIF Global have signed a Heads of Agreement for the planned offtake of up to 100,000 tonnes of e-methanol per year.
It may be a world-renowned holiday destination but the Bahamas is now making moves in the LNG sector as it seeks a move away from diesel.
The UK government has published a long list of products which could be subject to retaliatory tariffs with the US.
In February the long-running arguments about the US tax credits that attach to carbon dioxide when it is sequestered versus when it is used reached US Congress, but now with a new administration in place.
Hydrogen-based green steel output could reach 46 million tonnes by 2035, according to a new report from technology research firm IDTechEx. The report highlights how regulation, corporate climate targets, and pressure from sectors like automotive...
Project development group Skanska has signed a SEK990m phase-two contract with energy provider Stockholm Exergi for the upcoming bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) site in the Swedish capital.
Merchant carbon dioxide (CO2) production will be down in the US in 2025, mostly from plant losses but also the typical sourcing issues encountered every year – normal plant turnarounds that start in March and...
Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre and LUT University have concluded a three-year project exploring how carbon dioxide emissions from pulp mills could be captured and converted into raw materials for renewable plastics and e-fuels.
Global electricity consumption is forecast to grow at close to 4% annually through to 2027, as power use climbs in a range of sectors, according to a recent International Energy Agency (IEA) report.
Canada and Mexico have avoided the new 10% global tariffs issued by the US – but only because they have been targeted under previous measures.
