Green Sky Capital of Qatar has begun the development of a $239 million USD SAF plant to be placed at the Nador West Med complex in northeastern Morocco. This facility will have an estimated peak capacity of 66 MMgpy of SAF with an anticipated start of operations in August 2028.

The Trump administration is planning to invoke the Defense Production Act of 1950 to expand the production of an established refinery in Tyler, Texas, according to recent remarks made by Vice President J.D. Vance at a campaign stop this week. No further details were announced.

Technip Energies has been awarded contracts by Petkim for the development of an integrated petrochemical complex in Aliağa, Türkiye. These contracts include the license for a mixed-feed ethylene cracking unit, as well as PDP and FEED services for the overall complex.

Engineers India Limited has announced a Contract Agreement with the Dangote Group to serve as the PMC and EPCM consultant for an upcoming 700,000 bpd refinery and petrochemicals plant in Kenya. The contract value was stated as approximately $450 million USD.

Maire has announced that Nextchem, by way of its nitrogen technology licensor Stamicarbon, will be providing its technology for the upcoming San-7 project to be located in Al Jubail. SABIC Agri-Nutrients is developing this project as a large-scale grassroots fertilizer facility.

SABIC has announced that its subsidiary, Saudi Methanol Company (AR-RAZI), has received the necessary Ministry of Energy approval for the development of a methanol plant with a production capacity of 1.8 MMtpy located in Jubail Industrial City.

Montana Renewables has announced what it calls an innovative and capital efficient expansion plan for its MaxSAF facilities in Great Falls, Montana through a repurposing design that would take capital costs from an initial $1.2 billion to $137 million to reach 200 MMgpy by 2029.

KazMunayGas-Aero LLP, a subsidiary of KazMunayGas in Kazakhstan, announced this week that the company has signed agreements with KBR of the United States for the next development in what is expected to be the first Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) plant in Kazakhstan.

Maire has announced that Nextchem, through its subsidiary MyRechemical, was awarded a licensing, a Process Design Package (PDP) and engineering services contract by Sky Renewables for its upcoming Project Lion SAF project in North Queensland’s Burdekin region of Australia .

The Dangote Group has set a groundbreaking date in October 2026 for a 700,000 bpd grassroots refinery in Lamu, Kenya. It is expected to cost approximately 16 billion USD with a four year construction period.

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A $4 billion USD grassroots refinery in Uganda is now expected to receive a final investment decision in February 2027, according to recent remarks by the Petroleum Authority of Uganda. Once this decision is made, it could trigger new movement for this long-anticipated project.

XCF Global has announced a Joint Commercialization and Development Agreement with Continual Renewable Ventures Pty Ltd (CRV) and New Rise Australia Pty Ltd for the New Rise ANZ Project in Australia with a production capacity of 46 MMgpy of SAF and renewable diesel (HVO).

Topsoe and Sasol have signed an agreement with Allied Biofuels involving licensing and engineering for an upcoming SAF/eSAF project in Uzbekistan. Allied Biofuels is planning an FID in 2027 and a startup in 2030 with an eventual 400,000 tpy of SAF to be produced.

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America First Refining plans to build the first new U.S. oil refinery in nearly 50 years at the Port of Brownsville in South Texas. The plant would process 165,000 bpd of light shale crude into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel after startup in 2029.

ExxonMobil, Aramco and Samref have signed a Venture Framework Agreement to upgrade the 400,000 bpd Samref refinery in Yanbu and explore a new petrochemical complex. What do you think of these plans? Let us know in the comments. #Yanbu #GEI #GlobalEnergyInfrastructure

Moeve says its $1.3B La Rábida biofuels plant is 50% built. Once online by 2027, it will make 500k tpy of SAF & renewable diesel while cutting up to 3M tons CO₂/yr (~4% of Spain’s road transport). What do you think about Moeve's energy transition plans here? .#biofuels #GEI

Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery has inked an MoU with EIL for PMC/EPCM duties and has also selected Honeywell technology to expand Dangote to 1.4 mbpd by 2028. What do you think of Nigeria's big plans to be a refined products and petrochemicals hub? #GEI #GlobalEnergyInfrastructure

Nuberg EPC has won a new contract from Al Ghaith Chemical Industries to expand chlor-alkali capacity by 120 tpd in Sur, Oman, and add an 80 tpd calcium chloride plant. Total chlor-alkali output will reach 190 tpd by 2028. #chloralkali #Oman #GEI #GlobalEnergyInfrastructure