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SSI injects £30m into steelworks
Added: 4 May 2012
Sahaviriya Steel Industries (SSI) has commissioned a £30m pulverised coal injection (PCI) plant at …

Keeping track of GM crops
Added: 3 May 2012
New bioluminescent technology can track and monitor GM crops in the food processing chain.

Dounreay clean-up moves offshore
Added: 3 May 2012
Work to clean up radioactive contamination that leaked from Dounreay more than two decades ago is s…

Metso to supply a bio-oil unit to Fortum power plant
Added: 28 Apr 2012
Joensuu, Finland – Metso and Fortum Power and Heat have signed a contract regarding a delivery of a…

US Macondo investigators on UK fact-finding mission
Added: 26 Apr 2012
Aberdeen, UK – Investigators from the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) have …

Project targets energy lost during aluminium recycling
Added: 25 Apr 2012
London - HRS Heat Exchangers is to participate in ALUSALT – a consortium seeking to develop an adva…

Unite: Shell set to end manufacturing in the UK
Added: 24 Apr 2012
London – Shell is reviewing the future of its last UK manufacturing site in Stanlow, Cheshire, acco…

Drax in biomass handling contract
Added: 24 Apr 2012
London – Drax has recently entered into a contract with the Shepherd Group for biomass-related cons…

Eurometaux: ETS compensation will not stop plant closures
Added: 23 Apr 2012
Brussels – EU plans to compensate for electricity price hikes due to its Emissions Trading Scheme (…

Anaerobic digestion system set to be commercially available
Added: 23 Apr 2012
US researchers have unveiled what they claim is the first commercially available, high-solid anaero…

STEM gap-year numbers bounce back
Added: 23 Apr 2012
London – Companies are reporting a big increase in working gap-year applications from science, tech…

EU launches biofuels research initiative
Added: 23 Apr 2012
Brussels – The European Commission has launched the the Biofuels Research Infrastructure for Sharin…

Pepsi plant to cut fresh water use by 70%
Added: 19 Apr 2012
Nuremberg, Germany - PepsiCo has installed advanced water reuse technology as part of a wastewater …

Shell awards major onshore contract to Kvaerner
Added: 19 Apr 2012
Oslo - A/S Norske Shell has awarded Kvaerner an NOK6-billion, EPCM contract for modifications and p…

PDM to establish UK anaerobic digestion network
Added: 19 Apr 2012
Doncaster, UK – SARIA Bio-Industries has acquired a majority stake in Doncaster-based food-waste re…

New safety training standard for oil & gas industry
Added: 18 Apr 2012
London – A new oil and gas industry training standard, designed to improve safety at offshore works…

BP gets go ahead for huge Caspian gas field development
Added: 17 Apr 2012
Baku, Azerbaijan – The Shah Deniz consortium has decided to commence FEED work on the estimated $25…

Thai group restarts Teesside blast furnace
Added: 17 Apr 2012
Redcar, UK - Sahaviriya Steel Industries (SSI) has restarted the blast furnace at the Redcar steel …

Heat exchanger expertise for EU waste heat project
Added: 17 Apr 2012
London – HRS Heat Exchangers SLU, the Spanish arm of HRS Heat Exchangers Ltd, is to participate in …

KBR to provide ethylene furnace for INEOS Olefins
Added: 13 Apr 2012
Houston, Texas – INEOS has engaged KBR to design and construct an ethylene furnace for one of its i…