Supply is down, but innovations are up
Welcome to our 2025 CO2 issue. There’s always lots to talk about when it comes to carbon dioxide – but now more than ever, since there has been a wave of innovation in recent times as part of decarbonization efforts to drive the push for Net Zero.
Our cover story this month picks out ten moves. Between them, they serve to illustrate how innovation in CO2 is changing the game in North America and around the world.
Netherlands-based cryogenics specialist SPS Cryogenics has updated its logo to reflect its integration into OPW Clean Energy Solutions, a business unit of fuelling equipment company OPW in Ohio.
Helium exploration company Blue Star Helium has received approval to develop a helium and carbon dioxide processing plant at the Galactica project in Colorado.
A summit on direct air capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide at the recent European CO2 Summit saw three industry experts discuss latest moves in DAC technology.
Hidrogenii, a joint venture between US green hydrogen company Plug Power and chemical manufacturing firm Olin Corporation, has turned on a 15-tonnes-per-day hydrogen liquefaction plant in St Gabriel, Louisiana.
Australia’s Woodside has signed two liquefied natural gas sale and purchase deals with German energy company Uniper for the total supply of two million tonnes a year of LNG.
US-headquartered maritime and logistics firm Crowley’s new LNG-powered containership Quetzal is now sailing on routes across the US, central America and Dominican Republic.
Texas-based helium and nitrogen exploration company US Energy Corporation has bought a 2,300-acre plot in Montana to advance its related move as a carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) business.
Australia’s Woodside Energy has confirmed Sarah Bairstow will join in early May as Senior Vice-President for Louisiana LNG.
Global engineering firm CB&I and a consortium including Shell, GenH2, and the University of Houston have developed a large-scale, non-vacuum liquid hydrogen storage tank concept for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).
US-headquartered technology and engineering firm KBR has been awarded a second ammonia cracking technology contract by Hanwha Impact Corporation for its clean power generation facility in Korea.
