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Oil & gas industry event to mark Piper Alpha
Added: 20 Sep 2012
Aberdeen, UK – Oil & Gas UK is to hold a major offshore safety conference next summer, which will m…

RWE opens one, axes two plants
Added: 19 Sep 2012
London - RWE npower is to close its 2,000MW coal-fired Didcot A Power Station in Oxfordshire and th…

Engineers urge MPs to back shale gas
Added: 18 Sep 2012
London – The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has urged the Government to back the deve…

Process sectors move to embedded-PLC terminals
Added: 18 Sep 2012
Wellingborough, UK – Cost and factory space requirements, particularly in the food & beverage and p…

Emerson to automatate Vopak terminals worldwide
Added: 13 Sep 2012
London – Vopak has awarded Emerson Process Management, a three-year global framework agreement, as …

Industrial Strategy to target 'winners'
Added: 13 Sep 2012
London – Business secretary Vince Cable has set out his Industrial Strategy for the UK, looking at…

Burckhardt, Lewa in carbon capture link
Added: 13 Sep 2012
Winterthur, Switzerland – Lewa GmbH and Burckhardt Compression AG are to jointly manufacture system…

Magnetically separating oil and water
Added: 12 Sep 2012
MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could…

TU Delft combines water treatment technologies
Added: 12 Sep 2012
TU Delft has combined technologies for the treatment of waste water with bacteria, Nereda and Anamm…
Nano-velcro measures toxic metals in fluids
Added: 11 Sep 2012
Researchers have developed a method of measuring water-born toxic chemicals using a strip of glass …

BP advances oil recovery technology
Added: 10 Sep 2012
Aberdeen, UK – BP is deploying a new technology that, it believes, could significantly increase the…

Aberdeen's global status under threat
Added: 10 Sep 2012
London - Aberdeen is in danger of losing it status as an international oil & gas hub if it does not…

Shell taps Foster Wheeler for Qatar MEG project
Added: 9 Sep 2012
Zug, Switzerland - Shell Global Solutions International BV has awarded Foster Wheeler the contract …

Biofuel waste recycled for electricity
Added: 7 Sep 2012
Distillers Dried Grain with Solubles (DDGS) is a waste product from bioethanol production that is c…

UK oil & gas workforce getting younger
Added: 7 Sep 2012
Aberdeen, UK – There has been an increase in the number of people working offshore in the UK oil an…

Step Change targets worksite safety
Added: 6 Sep 2012
Aberdeen, UK – Step Change in Safety, an organisation dedicated to improving safety in the UK oil a…

TEG secures £21m for AD plant
Added: 3 Sep 2012
Organic waste group TEG has secured funding to construct a £21m waste facility at East London’s Dag…

Waste oil cuts cost of bioplastics
Added: 3 Sep 2012
‘Bioplastics’ that are naturally synthesised by microbes could be made commercially viable by using…

Process industries to present vision of CCS
Added: 3 Sep 2012
The Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) industrialists are brief Northeast MPs in…

Gazprom pulls out of Shtokman gas field
Added: 31 Aug 2012
Russia’s state-owned gas company, Gazprom, has pulled out of plans to develop the Shtokman gas fiel…