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 The Top 10 Advanced biofuels and biorefining companies in Asia As the US and Canada take a day off, we look at the hottest advanced technologies developing in Asia