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Tanker drivers' passport to safety
Added: 15 Jan 2013
London – A safety passport for petroleum tanker drivers is the focus of a new initiative, jointly a…
Honeywell more wireless ‘agnostic’
Added: 15 Jan 2013
Istanbul – End users are now less concerned about wireless standards than in what the technology ca…
Time pressures compromising maintenance safety
Added: 10 Jan 2013
London – Pressure to reduce UK plant downtime is threatening health and safety during maintenance, …
Roll-out of fourth generation industry concept
Added: 10 Jan 2013
London - ‘Integrated industry’ has been dubbed the fourth industrial revolution, following on from …
Dyson: Video games killing interest in engineering
Added: 9 Jan 2013
London – The UK is allowing the “glamour of web fads and video gaming” to undermine interest in eng…
TAQA confims deal to buy BP assets
Added: 9 Jan 2013
Abu Dhabi, UAE – Abu Dhabi National Energy Co. (TAQA) has confirmed an agreement to buy from BP oil…
Chemical engineering courses defy national trend
Added: 9 Jan 2013
London - The number of students opting to study chemical engineering in the UK has risen again desp…
UK renewable electricity capacity up 40%
Added: 8 Jan 2013
London - The UK is making “significant progress” with plans to increase renewable energy supply, ac…
Atlas Copco buys BASF equipment business
Added: 8 Jan 2013
Ludwigshafen, Germany - BASF is selling its MEYCO Equipment business providing concrete spraying ma…
Tax change prompts JX to invest in UK oil and gas fields
Added: 8 Jan 2013
London – JX Nippon Exploration and Production (U.K.) Ltd is to acquire a number of interests in UK …
Drax secures funds for biomass conversion plan
Added: 4 Jan 2013
Drax, UK – Drax plc has secured committed financing to support group plans to transform its 4,000MW…
UK engineering sector facing brain drain
Added: 3 Jan 2013
London – Four out of five UK engineering professionals are prepared to leave the country and work o…
City to harvest energy from water pipes
Added: 2 Jan 2013
Portland, Oregon – Lucid Energy, a company pioneering the development of in-pipe hydropower, is to …
Dana gets all-clear for $1.6bn oil & gas project
Added: 19 Dec 2012
London – The UK department of energy and climate change (DECC) has approved a Western Isles project…
GE Oil & Gas to create 200 jobs in Bristol
Added: 19 Dec 2012
Aberdeen, UK — GE’s Oil & Gas subsea systems business is to establish a new centre in Bristol under…
EU puts carbon capture funding on hold
Added: 19 Dec 2012
Brussels - The European Commission has opted to not to award any of the €275-million fund earmarked…
BP deal to bolster INEOS chemicals operation
Added: 19 Dec 2012
Saltend, UK – INEOS Enterprises had completed what it described as an important agreement with BP f…
Manufacturers predict a flat start to 2013
Added: 19 Dec 2012
London - Despite an increase in total order books for the third month running, UK manufacturers rem…
AFC gains further EU funding, makes acquisition
Added: 18 Dec 2012
London - Industrial fuel cell power company AFC Energy has been awarded a European Union grant of u…
Fracking opens up industry divide
Added: 16 Dec 2012
London - The UK government’s decision to allow the resumption of shale gas exploration in the UK ha…
