The Covid-19 pandemic casts a long shadow. The British Academy lists nine areas of long-term societal impact, and in at number 5 is ‘worsened health outcomes and growing health inequalities’. Most of us might wish to consign the pandemic to memory, but the Academy’s report, ‘The Covid-19 Decade’, is a reminder that its repercussions will live with us for years to come, and possibly longer than 10, it warns ominously. The sooner we begin to understand and confront the lasting issues of Covid-19, the better place we will be to address them.
The European Commission has approved a €1.5 billion French scheme to support the production of sustainable biomethane to foster the transition towards a Net Zero economy.
Air Liquide will build its first solid waste gas-to-biomethane purification unit in Latin America at the Cariacica landfill, with start-up scheduled for the second half of 2025.
Siemens Energy has been awarded a contract from German utility EWE to supply a 280 Megawatt (MW) electrolysis system which will provide up to 26,000 tonnes of green hydrogen annually.
Work on developing a jetty-moored floating liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) storage and export facility from Uniper’s proposed Grain Carbon Capture project on the Isle of Grain in the UK is set to get underway.
Blue Star Helium wants to produce beverage-grade carbon dioxide (CO2) from its Serenity CO2 project in the first half of 2025.
Sempra Infrastructure has awarded Bechtel Energy with a fixed-price engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for the second phase of Texas-based Port Arthur LNG.
GB Energy is partnering with the Crown Estate in a bid to unlock offshore wind from planning obstacles and accelerate decarbonisation.
Petronas, through its subsidiary Petronas CCS Solutions (PCCSS), has signed a land rental agreement with Kuantan Port Consortium to progress plans for its Southern Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) hub in Pahang, Malaysia.
TotalEnergies has signed agreements with German renewable developer RWE to acquire a 50% stake in OranjeWind, a 795 Megawatt (MW) offshore wind farm under development in the Netherlands.
Oil and gas giant Shell has selected blue ammonia technology from Houston-based KBR for its Blue Horizon project in Duqm, Oman.
