Turning "waste" natural gas that's now simply flared off at many oil wells into useful ethanol and methanol – and at an attractive price -- is now possible, thanks to technology developed by a ...

BASF is patenting a process that it says will produce methanol without greenhouse gas emissions. The process begins with making synthesis gas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, via partial ...

Dramatic improvements have been made to the process of converting carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, to methanol, a fuel and building block for a wide range of everyday materials, according to ...

HOUSTON, Sept. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) and Johnson Matthey (JM), announced today that they have signed an alliance agreement to license a groundbreaking ammonia-methanol co-production ...

An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of Manchester, has developed a fast and economical method of converting methane, or natural gas, into liquid methanol at ...

Chemists have been searching for efficient catalysts to convert methane into methanol. Adding water to the reaction can address certain challenges, but it also complicates the process. Now a team has ...

The global distribution of natural resources (oil, gas and coal) for energy and chemical provisions is uneven on the biosphere, which has been giving rise to severe political and economic issues in ...

KBR, Inc. KBR has inked a deal with Johnson Matthey (JM) to license a groundbreaking ammonia-methanol co-production process. Notably, this co-production process will combine KBR's proprietary PURIFIER ...

Ellen Moore resigned from the Sustainable Tacoma Commission in January out of frustration with what she perceived as a lack of information about the proposal that would bring a methanol plant to the ...