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Further education colleges "a real concern"
Added: 28 Nov 2012
London – The standard of training provided by further education colleges in the UK is well below th…
EDF granted nuclear site licence for Hinkley Point C
Added: 28 Nov 2012
London – The UK’s independent nuclear regulator has granted EDF Energy a nuclear site licence (NSL)…
Skills Show attracts over 70,000 people
Added: 27 Nov 2012
London – The first ever Skills Show, held at the NEC in Birmingham from 15-17 Nov, attracted 70,738…
Aerial inspection 'saves £5m' on N Sea platform
Added: 26 Nov 2012
Aberdeen, UK – The first offshore inspection in the North Sea to have been carried out using a remo…
Lack of skills puts engineering industry's growth plans on hold
Added: 26 Nov 2012
London – While almost three quarters of engineering firms in the UK report plans for growth, 60 % o…
Engineers listening for pipeline leaks via phone line
Added: 26 Nov 2012
Farnborough, UK - Pipeline and maintenance engineers are at the forefront of a battle to prevent oi…
Tata Steel to axe 900 jobs, restart blast furnace
Added: 23 Nov 2012
London - Tata Steel is to cut 900 jobs under a major restructure of its UK operations. The proposed…
Eni taps Honeywell for pioneering Venice project
Added: 23 Nov 2012
Venice, Italy – Eni will employ the Honeywell UOP/Eni Ecofining process for its innovative project …
BP appoints new upstream leader
Added: 23 Nov 2012
London – BP has appointed Lamar McKay, currently chairman and president of BP America, as chief exe…
Virtual look to Rockwell automation release
Added: 23 Nov 2012
London - Current demands on operators to improve productivity and safety, and on engineers to strea…
Carbon capture innovators to give UK the edge
Added: 22 Nov 2012
London – The UK government has announced 13 winning projects in a £20-million competition intended …
Prince Charles in biogas-to-grid first
Added: 22 Nov 2012
Poundbury, UK – The Prince of Wales will today open the country’s first full-scale anaerobic digest…
Improved detection of hazardous chemicals
Added: 21 Nov 2012
Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a system to quickly detect trace amounts of ch…
Centre to help deal with nuclear waste
Added: 20 Nov 2012
A £1.2m centre to research the decontamination and safe storage of nuclear waste is being establish…
Employers offered £150m for 'DIY' skills schemes
Added: 20 Nov 2012
London – The UK government has put up £150 million to help businesses to create their own training …
Concern over EU carbon capture fund
Added: 19 Nov 2012
London - Only one carbon capture & storage (CCS) project is likely receive EU funding under the fir…
Ohio researchers develop hybrid CO2 capture membrane
Added: 19 Nov 2012
Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a new hybrid membrane that combines the separat…
Energy minister puts the heat on
Added: 19 Nov 2012
London – Measures to reduce the UK heat-related energy requirements and the emissions generated wer…
Looking good in chemical protective clothes market
Added: 19 Nov 2012
London – The market for chemical protective clothing is set for robust growth over the next few yea…
Deepwater Horizon: BP reaches $4.5bn settlement with US
Added: 16 Nov 2012
London - BP is to pay fines of $4.5 billion and plead guilty to criminal charges in a deal with the…
