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Major BP contract for AMEC in Azerbajian
Added: 5 May 2011
London - BP Azerbaijan has awarded AMEC a $600m brownfield contract, covering onshore and offshore …

Tata Steel invests to cut Port Talbot energy costs, expand Clydebridge
Added: 5 May 2011
Port Talbot, UK – Tata Steel has recently launched a £53-million investment at its Port Talbot work…

NSK bearings save European cement plant
Added: 4 May 2011
Newark, UK – A European cement plant, which was experiencing regular bearing failures on a high tem…

Amarinth gains Petronas approved vendor status
Added: 4 May 2011
Woodbridge, UK – Amarinth, a supplier of centrifugal pumps and associated equipment to the industri…

ARC Energy supplies "world's largest" vortex flow control unit
Added: 4 May 2011
Glasgow, UK – Arc Energy Resources, a provider of fabrication services and a principal fabricator t…

Global used-equipment demand buoys Perry Process
Added: 4 May 2011
Newton Aycliffe, UK – Global demand for used process machinery across all sectors has helped County…

Greenlight for Canadian CCS project
Added: 4 May 2011
Saskatchewan, Canada – The Government of Saskatchewan has approved construction of the Boundary Dam…

British Bakels adds robotic line
Added: 4 May 2011
Bicester, UK – Chronos BTH is installing a robot palletising system at the bakery ingredients suppl…

Contracts & Projects Tracker: April 2011
Added: 3 May 2011
INEOS Oxide is considering plans to invest in new ethylene oxide (EO) – at least 500ktpa – and EO d…

Tax hike will clobber UK oil & gas investment, production
Added: 3 May 2011
Aberdeen, UK - UK tax hikes announced in Budget 2011 will cause substantial long-term reductions in…

Far East welders 'to nab' Doosan power plant jobs
Added: 3 May 2011
London – DoosanBabcock plans to recruit over 100 welders from the Far East to work on power plant p…

Taim Weser kit for Valencia waste processing plant
Added: 3 May 2011
Zaragoza, Spain – Spanish group Taim Weser is to supply the equipment required for the modernisatio…

Imperial spinout's 'check and protect' coating for gas turbines
Added: 1 May 2011
London – Southside Thermal Sciences (STS), a spin-out from Imperial College London, has developed a…

Materials costs bug Unilever boss
Added: 28 Apr 2011
London – Rising raw materials costs are worrying Unilever CEO Paul Polman, despite him delivering a…

ABB to profit from commodity price hikes
Added: 28 Apr 2011
Zurich, Switzerland, – ABB has achieved a double-digit rise in orders, revenues and earnings for Q1…

Finnish power company adds Metso energy management system
Added: 28 Apr 2011
London – Metso is to supply an energy management system to Pori Energia in Pori, Finland. It will b…

Siemens boss: UK manufacturers losing out to Germany
Added: 28 Apr 2011
London – The latest CBI manufacturing survey and manufacturing production statistics suggests that …

Alfa Laval buoyed by oil & gas, process
Added: 27 Apr 2011
Stockholm – Higher demand from the oil & gas and process sectors helped Alfa Laval to a 27% order-i…

Shale gas fuels Dow expansion plans
Added: 27 Apr 2011
Midland, Michigan - Dow Chemical Co. plans to increase its ethylene and propylene production and to…

Metso to convert Polish coal-fired plant to biomass
Added: 26 Apr 2011
London – Metso has received a Euro20m order to convert a coal-fired CFB boiler to a biomass-fired b…