Contributor: Richard Hands

Kuwaiti state oil company KOC has issued a public tender for a new sour gas pipeline. The 24” (61 cm) spur gas export line will be constructed from Station 171-BS through TP-1 to the Intermediate Gas Separator.

IPCO will present its new Rotoform Configurator at Sulphur + Sulphuric Acid 2026 in Berlin, Germany, on 3–5 November.

OCP Group plans to increase its ownership interest in purified phosphoric acid (PPA) producer Emaphos by buying the equity stakes currently held by Chemische Fabrik Budenheim and Prayon, the company said 14 October.

UK Energy Group said in a stock exchange announcement on 14 October that its subsidiary UK Energy Storage had signed a five-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with UK Nuclear.

President Donald Trump has waived additional tariffs on Russian imports and secondary duties on countries purchasing Russian energy.

Nutrien Ltd has announced that it will “indefinitely” shut down its Trinidad Nitrogen operations at the Point Lisas site due to ongoing natural gas constraints and uncertainty over gas supplies. The company says that, following an “extensive review” of alternatives, it has determined that this is “the optimal path” to enhance free cash flow and […]

State run companies Coal India Limited (CIL) and Hindustan Urvarak and Rasayan Ltd (HURL) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore setting up a coal gasification-based ammonia-urea plant at HURL’s Sindri site in Jharkhand state. HURL currently operates an ammonia-urea plant with 2,200 t/d of ammonia and 3,850 t/d of urea capacity at […]

The governing council of Castilla y León has agreed to grant priority industrial project status to the eM-Numancia project. EM-Numancia is a €320 million green methanol project which aims to combine renewable hydrogen produced by water electrolysis using renewable electricity with syngas generated by the gasification of forest biomass – principally pine wood. The facility […]

PT Vale Indonesia and Huayou Cobalt say that they are considering constructing a rotary kiln smelting blast furnace in order to recover and reuse sulphur from tailings at their Pomalaa HPAL project in southeast Sulawesi. PT Vale president and CEO Bernardus Irmanto said that the proposal forms part of efforts to mitigate high sulphur costs […]

NextChem, via its subsidiary MyRechemical, has been awarded a licensing, process design package (PDP) and engineering services contract by SKY Renewables Burdekin Pty Ltd, an Australian project development company focused on the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), for the syngas section of Project Lion, in North Queensland. The project will gasify locally available sugarcane […]