Todays Latest Updates: 06 August 2026

Biobased chemicals: Portugal. Catalyxx announced that Sines, Portugal, has been selected as the location for Catalyxx Ibérica, the company’s first commercial-scale plant. Located in one of Europe’s most important industrial and logistics hubs, the €120M Sines facility was selected for its world-class industrial infrastructure, a deep-water port, excellent logistics connectivity, and access to renewable energy. The facility will produce butanol, hexanol and octanol from bioethanol, offering the market a low-carbon alternative to conventional petrochemical production routes, while maintaining full compatibility with existing industrial applications and value chains. The company’s demonstration facility in Sevilla, Spain has enabled Catalyxx to validate its proprietary catalytic process under continuous operating conditions, generate extensive operational data, and develop the expertise required to support industrial scale-up. Link 06/08/2026.

Biogas: Spain. AGR Biogas’s new biogas plant in Andalusia will generate 58 GWh of biomethane that will be injected directly into the gas network, providing sufficient energy for 11,000 homes. The plant uses a mixture of agricultural and livestock waste, including whey, olive pomace, poultry manure and pork slurry, the digestate obtained by the anaerobic digestion process must be pasteurized to comply with European animal by-products regulations — Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 — before it can be used as a valuable agricultural fertilizer. The plant uses  the HRS Digestate Pasteurization System (DPS) with the capacity to pasteurize 200 tons of digestate per day. The HRS DPS has already been successfully installed in biogas plants around the world, preventing the spread of potential pathogens and meeting local legal and quality requirements. Link 06/08/2026.

Biogas: USA. bp announced plans to sell Archaea Energy, it’s U.S.-based biogas business less than four years after acquiring the company for more than $4 billion. The planned sale is part of a larger effort at bp to simplify and strengthen the company’s portfolio. bp acquired Houston, Texas-based Archaea Energy in late 2022 for approximately $4.1 billion. At that time, the company operated 50 renewable natural gas (RNG) and landfill gas-to-energy facilities across the U.S. that produced an estimated 6,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) of RNG. More than 80 additional RNG project were in the company’s development pipeline at the time of its sale to bp. Link 06/08/2026.

Hydrogen: Spain. Hydnum Steel secured a EUR 150 million (USD 173m) investment commitment from Spain's state-owned development finance institution, COFIDES, to support the construction of what is planned to be the Iberian Peninsula's first clean steel plant. The facility, to be built in Puertollano in Ciudad Real, will use electric arc furnaces powered by renewable electricity and green hydrogen. It is designed to produce 2.7 million tonnes of flat steel annually while cutting Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions by up to 98% compared with conventional blast furnace-based steelmaking. Link 06/08/2026.

Pyrolysis: Canada Power Wood Holdings Ltd agreed terms for an investment of up to C$84M into its development of two advanced black pellet production facilities in Northern Alberta. The Calgary-based biofuel business will receive its finance in multiple amounts from London-based private investment firm Chair Capital Ltd., as it reaches key project milestones towards the completion of each pellet facility to be developed by its subsidiary Power Wood Canada Corp. Each pellet plant will manufacture durable and waterproof, densified steam-treated biofuel pellets from waste stream wildfire-damaged deadwood, diseased trees and forest floor debris removed from ranges in North West Alberta. The facilities will have a combined annual output capacity of 700,000 tons. Power Wood has 10-year, take-or-pay offtake agreements in place with multiple Japanese energy companies that will use its biofuel as an energy-dense, drop-in replacement for coal. Link 06/08/2026.