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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…

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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…

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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…

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Emerson to automatate Vopak terminals worldwide

Added: 13 Sep 2012

London – Vopak has awarded Emerson Process Management, a three-year global framework agreement, as …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Waste oil cuts cost of bioplastics

Added: 3 Sep 2012

‘Bioplastics’ that are naturally synthesised by microbes could be made commercially viable by using…

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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…

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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…