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Shell Pearl GTL

Atlas Copco highlights role on Pearl GTL

Added: 21 Feb 2012

Shell Pearl GTL

London – Atlas Copco has flagged up the involvment in the Shell-operated Pearl GTL project in Qatar…

Project hopes to produce DNA structures on a larger scale

Added: 21 Feb 2012

Southampton, UK- A team of chemists from the Universities of Southampton and Oxford have been award…

Pilot plant produces biogas from food waste

Added: 20 Feb 2012

Stuttgart, Germany – Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biot…

Shell-eating GM fungus offers low-cost process route to anti-viral drugs

Added: 17 Feb 2012

Vienna – Recent incidents, such as the SARS and Swine flu epidemics, have highlighted the need for …

Paper Mill

SAICA starts new recycled paper mill in Manchester

Added: 17 Feb 2012

Manchester, UK – SAICA’s new recycled paper mill in Partington has produced its first paper - ahead…

Emerson selected as MAC for BP project in the Caspian Sea

Added: 14 Feb 2012

London – The BP-operated Azerbaijan International Operating Co. (AIOC) has awarded Emerson Process …

Aramco, Dow tap Foster Wheeler for Saudi propylene oxide project

Added: 13 Feb 2012

Zug, Switzerland - Saudi Aramco and Dow Europe have awarded Foster Wheeler an engineering, procurem…

UK fund targets carbon abatement technologies

Added: 10 Feb 2012

London – The UK government is to provide grant funding totalling nearly £3 million to four major co…

Bite-size anaerobic digestion for SMEs

Added: 10 Feb 2012


London – While anaerobic digestion (AD) offers a way of reducing carbon emission, providing energy …

Bayer CO2-to-plastics project among best ideas for the future

Added: 6 Feb 2012

Leverkusen, Germany – A Bayer project for using the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as a component fo…

Measurement technology can raise capacity of wastewater plants

Added: 6 Feb 2012

Helsinki – Metso has developed an on-line measurement technology, which it claims, can enable munic…

Cargo of oil to keep Petroplus refinery running

Added: 3 Feb 2012

London – Administrators for Petroplus Refining & Marketing Ltd (PRML) have acquired a cargo of oil …

Yorkshire Water starts work on £30m 'poo-power' scheme

Added: 3 Feb 2012

Bradford, UK – Yorkshire Water has started work on a £30-million project to install the UK’s first …

Oil-condition sensors can save miners money

Added: 2 Feb 2012

London – Unexpected equipment failure and unplanned down-time significantly impacts on operational …

Sartorius upbeat over 2011 results, restructure

Added: 2 Feb 2012

Goettingen, Germany – Laboratory and process equipment group Sartorius has reported growth in sales…

Foster Wheeler for UK carbon capture project

Added: 31 Jan 2012

Zug, Switzerland – Foster Wheeler has been awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) contract …

System integrators in demand in India

Added: 25 Jan 2012

London – Manufacturing companies in India are increasingly turning to system integrators to impleme…

BOC joins Alstom, Drax on flagship CCS project

Added: 24 Jan 2012

London – Industrial gases provider BOC is joining Alstom and Drax as a co-developer on the 426 MW o…

Petroplus files for backruptcy

Added: 24 Jan 2012

Zug, Switzerland – Europe’s largest independent oil refiner Petroplus Holdings AG is to file for in…

EU to triple banned-chemicals list

Added: 24 Jan 2012

London – Manufacturers and distributors across a broad range of industries which place products on …