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...The nearly 600-day commissioning period for Calcasieu Pass defies industry standards, it added....
...Refining metals including zinc still accounts for most of Korea Zinc’s revenues, but the company expects its battery materials business to generate sales from next year....
...Galp had signed a supply contract with Venture Global in 2018 as one of the foundation customers for the Calcasieu Pass plant....
...of the world’s rare-earth mining and close to 90 per cent of processing and refining, according to the International Energy Agency....
...“For refiners that can be the last standing, and for companies with a higher risk appetite that are acquiring these ageing assets, there is arguably more money to be made than ever refining crude in Europe...
...Weakness there bodes ill for the integrated oil companies — and for the global economy....
...Souki started Tellurian in early 2016 with Martin Houston, a former BG Group executive, with an aim to develop the Driftwood project on a 1,200-acre site along the Calcasieu river....
...“Under its new board, it is not just developing but is refining an AGI to maximise profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity.” OpenAI declined to comment....
...Venture began producing LNG at its Calcasieu Pass plant in Louisiana in 2022 after undergoing rapid construction....
...The White House is now requiring the Department of Energy to conduct an environmental review of Calcasieu Pass 2, a $10bn project by Venture Global, before it can be approved....
...steelmaker SSAB is among the European winners of a series of US government investments in an $6bn effort to decarbonise manufacturing, across high polluting sectors such as steel, cement, chemicals and fuel refining...
...Ambani’s long-running strategy is to diversify Reliance, one of India’s largest conglomerates, beyond its core assets in oil and gas refining into consumer-facing digital businesses....
...Shell’s $54.2bn in cash flow from operations was the second highest in the company’s history....
...It is one of the biggest western refining companies, with 12 plants spread across the US and Europe....
...Shell said the sale was part of the company’s strategy to cut down its global refining portfolio and focus on large sites integrated with its chemicals and trading businesses....
...But turning spodumene into lithium concentrates for electric vehicle batteries also requires understanding of processing and refining....
...That compares with the average of 100,000 a day that were offline because of maintenance work in December, and is about a tenth of the US’s total refining capacity of about 10mn barrels a day....
...The first point is that — unlike makers of smaller, flexible electrolysers — its hulking alkaline machines are designed for industrial applications such as refining and steelmaking....
...Malmendier Legal said that the economy ministry had informed it on Tuesday this week that it was considering expropriating shares in Rosneft Deutschland GmbH and RN Refining & Marketing GmbH....
...It will work with the market on refining the CO₂ threshold and measurement methodologies for low carbon nickel to help identify the premium, it added in the notice....
...“Potential actions may include, but are not limited to, refining the process to leverage the scale, efficiency and flexibility of the multi-class structure and manage flows, cash balances and portfolio rebalances...
...A new crop of start-ups, such as Houston-based Solugen, are attempting to make petrochemicals from plants, replacing fossil inputs to the refining process, such as propane and ethane, with plant feedstocks...
...China has about two-thirds of the world’s lithium refining capacity. But switching battery suppliers to South Korean and Japanese rivals, which charge more, could mean higher costs for automakers....
...Under-investment is not just a feature of production and mining but can also occur in refining....
...Scientists are now refining chemical fingerprinting techniques to gauge which PFAS chemicals come from which source....
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