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Report highlights platform removal

Added: 1 Jul 2015

A report looking at the cost-efficient decommissioning and removal of offshore oil and gas platform…

Flow meter LNG site

NEL invests £1m in flow meter facility

Added: 1 Jul 2015

Oil & Gas consultancy NEL is investing £1 million to create the UK’s only flow meter calibration fa…

National Grid control centre

Energy associations plan merger

Added: 1 Jul 2015

The Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) and the UK Demand Response Association (UKDRA) have …

EDF Hinkley Point C site preparation

Nuclear supply scheme launched

Added: 30 Jun 2015

Leaders of the nuclear industry will gather in London today to launch an initiative to broaden the …

Cuadrilla shale site

Second Blackpool shale gas site refused

Added: 29 Jun 2015

Lancashire County Council today refused Cuadrilla planning permission to develop a shale gas site i…

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Sewerage deaths show toxic gas threat

Added: 24 Jun 2015

Multiple deaths in sewer networks this month show why it is vital for workers to pay attention to s…

MIT chip

MIT chip harvests IoT potential

Added: 23 Jun 2015

An ultralow-power chip developed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) im…

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Few parents think girls like engineering

Added: 23 Jun 2015

Just 7% of parents think that engineering appeals to their daughters, according to research publish…

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Obsolete stock poses "critical risk"

Added: 22 Jun 2015

Obsolete storeroom stock is posing a ‘critical risk’ to UK manufacturing productivity, according to…

Flexion

Air leaks ‘costing’ UK industry

Added: 16 Jun 2015

Compressed air leaks are costing UK industry thousands of pounds every year, according to fluid pow…

North Sea offshore oil and gas

Report backs CCS tax break for oil industry

Added: 16 Jun 2015

The government must introduce tax breaks and other fiscal incentives to encourage the use of Carbon…

Cuadrilla site

Split planning decision for Blackpool shale

Added: 16 Jun 2015

Lancashire County Council planning officers yesterday recommended that one of Cuadrilla’s proposed …

National Grid control centre

Industry meets to expand plant shutdowns

Added: 15 Jun 2015

Representatives from the process industries will meet in London this week to discuss how to grow th…

Wastewater treatment plant

Innovative process starts at sewage plant

Added: 10 Jun 2015

Nottingham’s Stoke Bardolph wastewater treatment works is close to completing a three-stage biologi…

Manufacturing Barometer

Productivity harming manufacturing growth

Added: 10 Jun 2015

Majority of SMEs worried about productivity, while research claims that industrial standards could …

Cuadrilla shale site

GMB union backs shale gas

Added: 9 Jun 2015

The body representing UK shale gas developers yesterday signed an agreement with the GMB trade unio…

The Chase nature reserve

Thames Water pollution fine upheld

Added: 5 Jun 2015

The Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a £250,000 fine imposed on Thames Water for polluting a nature…

Bionic handling assistant

Internet of Things research hub for UK

Added: 2 Jun 2015

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has today opened a competition to de…

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Emerson buys oil & gas software firm

Added: 2 Jun 2015

Emerson Process Management has acquired oil & gas pipeline software specialist Energy Solutions Int…

Manufacturing Barometer

Manufacturing loses momentum

Added: 1 Jun 2015

Figures released today suggest manufacturing is growing at a slower rate than expected, though CIPS…