Industry dinner
LPG-DME Blends Workshop
Panel Discussion
With its quiet, sootless combustion, ultra-low emissions, high cetane, inexpensive LPG-compatible equipment and logistics
and high energy density, DME offers an array of pathways to sustainable and zero-emission energy for a wide range of applications
A series of quick-reference guides to the significant opportunities renewable DME (rDME) offers for defossilization and the creation of local, circular economy value chains
The industry's flagship event provided a
comprehensive look at developments worldwide connected with DME's
production, commercialization and use, with a special emphasis on
investments being made now to enable and support renewable DME (rDME)
production capacity, infrastructure, regulations and standards.
IDA member KEW Technology is one party to the recently announced joint venture with SHV Energy that established Circular Fuels Ltd, a company developing renewable DME production plants as part of a multimillion GBP£ investment to demonstrate the viability of converting renewable and recycled carbon feedstock into rDME.
17 May 2022
Dimeta today announced the location of its first industrial-scale rDME plant at Teesworks in the United Kingdom, a major step forward on its commitment to bring rDME to Europe and the United States in 2024.
13 May 2022
Indonesian President Joko Widodo met with Air Products & Chemicals CEO Seifi Ghasemi in Washington, DC to discuss the company's investment in the DME plant where groundbreaking took place in January.
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27 April 2022
The first commercially available blend of propane and rDME was launched at the company's facility in Placentia, California. The new product, Propane+rDME, combines either traditional or renewable propane with rDME produced by Oberon Fuels to produce a blended alternative with a lower carbon intensity that can be used as a drop-in replacement for propane engines in both on- and off-road applications.
6 December 2021
Three leaders in their respective industries announce plans to evaluate and validate the material compatibility, safety, and performance attributes of a rDME-LPG blend for use in residential and commercial heating and cooking applications in Latin America.
10 June 2021
Oberon Fuels has announced that production of rDME has commenced at its recently upgraded facility in California, representing both the first commercial production of rDME in the US and the only current such production in the world.
19 January 2021
Caribbean Gas Chemical Limited's plant, with an annual production capacity of one million tons of methanol and 20,000 tons of DME, is the first downstream plant in the country producing and utilizing methanol as a raw material.
22 January 2021
The Indonesian government has announced the preparation of incentives to promote development of DME production in the country, in a move to reduce dependence on LPG imports.