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Oil & gas tax move could free up investment billions
Added: 10 Jul 2012
London – The UK government has published a consultation aimed at giving oil and gas companies more …
Capturing the electrical charge between plastics
Added: 10 Jul 2012
Triboelectric generator produces electricity by harnessing friction between surfaces
Fukushima disaster "made in Japan"
Added: 9 Jul 2012
Tokyo – The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was “man-made” and not the unfore…
UK chemical engineers report positive pay trends
Added: 4 Jul 2012
London – UK chemical engineers have experienced positive pay trends with salaries continuing to ris…
Lafarge using wireless to monitor critical instruments
Added: 4 Jul 2012
Bristol, UK - Lafarge Plasterboard is monitoring critical field instruments remotely from the plant…
BASF to build butadiene plant in Antwerp
Added: 4 Jul 2012
Ludwigshafen, Germany – BASF plans to build a butadiene extraction plant at its Verbund site in Ant…
Argex claims TiO2 process 'breakthrough'
Added: 4 Jul 2012
Montreal, Quebec – Canadian company Argex Mining Inc. claims to have made a breakthrough with its p…
Sold Coryton refinery to be turned into a fuel terminal
Added: 3 Jul 2012
London – The Petroplus Coryton refinery site in Essex will be turned into a fuel storage facility a…
Improving miner safety
Added: 3 Jul 2012
A penny-sized device is being developed to improve miner safety
Klinger UK nets Energy Industry Award
Added: 2 Jul 2012
Leeds, UK – Klinger UK, a developer, manufacturer and distributor of sealing products for the globa…
HSE to proceed with controversial cost recovery scheme
Added: 29 Jun 2012
London – The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is to proceed with its controversial Fee for Interve…
Virtual reality goes underground to monitor nuclear waste
Added: 29 Jun 2012
Cologne, Germany – Research agencies in Germany have joined forces to develop what they believe wil…
Kawasaki Heavy Industries invests in CompactGTL
Added: 28 Jun 2012
London – Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has taken a minority shareholding (2.2%) in CompactGTL –a …
AD outshines solar and could grow 800%
Added: 27 Jun 2012
London – The UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) industry is punching well above its weight in terms of e…
BP selects Emerson as preferred N Sea automation supplier
Added: 27 Jun 2012
London – BP Exploration has selected Emerson Process Management as its preferred automation contrac…
MI5 chief: UK industry under "astonishing" rate of cyber attacks
Added: 26 Jun 2012
London - Industry is now coming under an “astonishing” rate of cyber attacks, according to Jonathan…
ExxonMobil to 'reconfigure' UK refinery
Added: 25 Jun 2012
Fawley, UK – ExxonMobil is to implement a reconfiguration of the facilities at its Fawley refinery …
Fraunhofer network expands
Added: 25 Jun 2012
London - Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) and German applied research organisation Fraunhofer-G…
Rosneft, ExxonMobil target new reserves in Russia
Added: 25 Jun 2012
Tuapse, Russia— Rosneft and ExxonMobil are to jointly develop tight oil reserves in Western Siberia…
Jacobs nets contract for Saudi polyetheylene trains
Added: 24 Jun 2012
London – Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and constructio…
