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Rio Tinto and bp sign one-year trial of marine biofuels

Stuart Mitchell

Rio Tinto and bp have agreed to work together on a one-year biofuel trial to help reduce carbon emissions from Rio Tinto’s marine fleet.  Under the trial, bp is supplying Rio Tinto with marine biofuel for approximately 12 months. The fuel will be trialled on Rio Tinto’s RTM Tasman vessel on a mix of Transatlantic and Atlantic-Pacific routes, in one of the longest-duration marine biofuel trials to date.  The results of the trial will help Rio Tinto study ways to reduce its carbon emissions from its marine fleet and inform…

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bp and Clean Planet Energy reach agreement to help advance the circular plastics economy

Stuart Mitchell

bp has signed a ten-year offtake agreement with Clean Planet Energy, a UK-based company that is developing facilities to convert hard-to-recycle waste plastics into circular petrochemical feedstocks and also into ultra-low sulphur diesel (ULSD). Clean Planet Energy designs and builds facilities — which they refer to as ecoPlants — that are expected to process plastics typically rejected by traditional recycling centres and so would otherwise be sent to landfill or incineration.  Under the new agreement bp will initially receive the output of Clean Planet Energy’s first facility, currently under construction in Teesside…

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bp joins Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation

Stuart Mitchell

bp has joined the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) as a strategic partner, which was marked by a partnership agreement ceremony in Singapore this morning. GCMD was set up to help drive decarbonization of the maritime industry and bp is pleased to be working with GCMD to help further this aim. GCMD is based in Singapore – one of the world’s busiest ports. It was set up as a non-profit organization in August last year to help the maritime industry meet or exceed the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) GHG…

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Aberdeen City Council and bp sign joint venture agreement to develop city hydrogen hub

Stuart Mitchell

Aberdeen City Council and bp have signed an agreement to form a joint venture partnership that will deliver a scalable green hydrogen production, storage and distribution facility in the city powered by renewable energy. The Aberdeen Hydrogen Hub is to be developed in three phases in response to growing demands for hydrogen. Phase one, which involves delivery of a green hydrogen production and transport refuelling facility powered by a solar farm, is targeting first production from 2024, delivering over 800 kilograms of green hydrogen per day – enough to fuel…

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bp to invest £1 billion in UK EV charging infrastructure

Stuart Mitchell

bp has announced new plans to invest £1 billion in electric vehicle charging in the UK, supercharging the roll-out of fast, convenient charging across the country.  bp pulse, bp’s EV charging business, intends to make the investment over the next 10 years helping to meet the UK’s fast-growing demand for EV charging and support the country’s transition to low carbon transportation for both consumers and fleet vehicles. The company also expects this to support hundreds of new jobs in the UK.   The investment will allow bp pulse to deliver more…

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