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14 July 20258 July 2025

Analysing Asia’s latest biochemicals deals

We analyse major Asian biochemicals deals from the past year and what they mean for the countries involved

9 May 20255 May 2025

HYCO1 Signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Malaysia LNG Sdn. Bhd. to Collaborate on Carbon Capture and Utilization Project in Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia

The Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) Project will be located in Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia, the home of Malaysia LNG Sdn. Bhd. (MLNG; a subsidiary of PETRONAS), which is the CO2 supplier for the project

22 November 202418 November 2024

Malaysia’s 2025 budget promotes palm waste SAF

Malaysia's state-owned Petronas will work with palm oil producers to develop palm oil waste-based sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), according to prime minister Anwar Ibrahim when he presented the 2025 budget

10 September 20246 September 2024

What’s happening to the biofuels market?

The oil majors that had branched out into renewables in recent years began pausing biorefinery projects in quick succession over the summer of 2024

9 August 20247 August 2024

PETRONAS, Enilive and Euglena reach Final Investment Decision to construct a biorefinery in Malaysia

Targeted to be operational by the second half of 2028, the biorefinery will have the capability to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and other biofuels such as Renewable Diesel/ Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO)

2 March 202327 February 2023

Algae: Should they stay or should they go?

Report on the development of algae-based products from the Green Chemicals Blog

2 January 202321 December 2022

PETRONAS, Eni and Euglena to Explore Biorefinery Opportunity in Malaysia

Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS), Eni S.p.A (Eni) and Euglena Co., Ltd. (Euglena) today announced that they are jointly studying the possibility of developing and operating a biorefinery in the Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC), one of the largest integrated refinery and petrochemical developments in Southeast Asia

25 October 202220 October 2022

PETRONAS and Heriot-Watt announce research partnership

The research will initially focus on utilising the estimated 4m tonnes of waste and by-products created by distilleries in the UK and the approximately 127m tonnes of agriculture waste generated annually in Malaysia for hydrogen production

29 June 202222 June 2022

Chemical recycling: Towards a circular economy

For most polymers the only possible approach is to break down the polymer chain through pyrolysis, which releases either monomers, such as ethylene, or light hydrocarbons like naphtha, to remake the polymers

6 September 20184 September 2018

Birth of an industrial sugars giant? Sugars in focus in Leaf Resources, Petronas agreement

We hear from Australia and Malaysia that PETRONAS Chemicals Group and Leaf Resources inked a MoU for Leaf’s proposed biorefinery project in Malaysia

6 August 20185 August 2018

PETRONAS Chemicals Group enters MOU with Leaf for biorefinery offtake

MOU provides among other things for a study of chemical markets and commercially ready bio-technologies

19 April 201615 April 2016

Winners of the First Green and Sustainable Chemistry Challenge Announced

The challenge aims to promote projects that offer environmentally friendly and sustainable processes, products and resources applicable for use in developing countries

29 October 201526 October 2015

Butanol and The Case of a Global Sustainable Society

To Be, or Not to Be… By Dr Kapil S Lokare, Special to The Digest

1 July 20159 September 2021

Linde steps up research into safe ways of using captured carbon dioxide

Company has extended its participation in the international research project “Impact of Common Impurities on Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transport and Storage” until 2017

Linde vertieft Forschung zur sicheren Nutzung von Kohlendioxid

Unternehmen verlängert Mitwirkung am internationalen Forschungskonsortium "Impact of Common Impurities on Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transport and Storage" bis 2017

12 February 201412 February 2014

Ceresana Research: Marktstudie Butanol

Neuster Marktreport verzeichnet weltweit gestiegenen Butanol-Verbrauch

25 March 2013

Biorefinery 2015 – transformations in biofuels costs, financing

The first wave of cellulosic biofuels projects are now reaching completion

15 October 20129 September 2021

PETRONAS and LanzaTech to recycle CO<sub>2</sub> into sustainable chemicals

Waste CO₂ from Petronas operations will be captured by LanzaTech’s process to create economic routes to acetic acid

3 September 2012