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Peterhad CCGT plant, Aberdeenshire

Wood Group wins Shell CCS FEED

Added: 16 Oct 2014

Shell has hired Wood Group’s subsea engineering division to carry out the front end engineering des…

fracking

Ineos buys second Scottish shale licence

Added: 13 Oct 2014

Chemical company Ineos today acquired a majority interest in a shale gas development licence in Sco…

EDF Sizewell B nuclear power station

Sizewell B in maintenance shutdown

Added: 13 Oct 2014

EDF’s Sizewell B nuclear power station was yesterday shut down for a £60 million maintenance and re…

Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre - Energy from Waste

Yokogawa wins energy from waste deal

Added: 9 Oct 2014

Yokogawa yesterday confirmed it had been awarded a contract to supply control and safety systems fo…

EDF Hinkley Point C nuclear power

Brussels approves Hinkley Point financing

Added: 8 Oct 2014

The European Commission today cleared the financing of EDF’s proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear plant…

Drax biomass storage domes

Government "blows" renewables budget

Added: 3 Oct 2014

The government was today criticised for allocating 58% of its renewable energy budget to just eight…

Corn field

Chemists boost biofuel production

Added: 3 Oct 2014

Chemical engineers in the US have modified yeast tolerance to enhance biofuel production capacity, …

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World’s first CCS plant opens

Added: 2 Oct 2014

The world’s first commercial-scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) will begin operating in Canada …

Ineos Grangemouth

Ineos buys Grangemouth power plant

Added: 2 Oct 2014

Ineos today announced it is buying the gas-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant that provides …

Drax biomass conversion

Renewables budget increased

Added: 2 Oct 2014

The government today announced it was increasing financial support for renewable energy by £95 mill…

Cuadrilla shale site

UK shale far more complex than US

Added: 1 Oct 2014

Geologists yesterday warned that extraction of UK shale gas would require far more engineering expe…

Shale gas

Ineos warned over shale offer

Added: 30 Sep 2014

Ineos’ plan to offer 6% of its UK shale revenues to local communities has been accused of being pot…

Nestle apprenctice at work Jordan Phillips

Food efficiency fund launched

Added: 25 Sep 2014

An £11 million fund to encourage engineering innovation and improve resource efficiency in the food…

National Grid

Tata Steel among Grid shutdown firms

Added: 24 Sep 2014

Tata Steel was yesterday confirmed as one of the hundreds of industrial firms to have signed up to …

Oil & gas facility showing pipework

Siemens buys Dresser-Rand for $7.6bn

Added: 22 Sep 2014

Siemens today announced it was acquiring Dresser-Rand for $7.6 billion (£4.6bn) and aimed to become…

Karl-Ludwig Kley

Merck buys Sigma-Aldrich for £10bn

Added: 22 Sep 2014

Pharma and chemicals giant Merck has agreed to buy life sciences firm Sigma-Aldrich for approximate…

Blu Tack Bostik Total Arkema

Arkema plans Total adhesives takeover

Added: 19 Sep 2014

Total today announced it had received a €1.74 billion (£1.36bn) bid from French chemicals giant Ark…

Shale gas fracking

Fracking “cleared” of water pollution

Added: 16 Sep 2014

Contamination of groundwater near US shale sites was caused by well failures rather the hydraulic f…

EDF Hinkley Point C site preparation

AMEC to partner Chinese nuclear firm

Added: 12 Sep 2014

Engineering contractor AMEC today announced it had signed an agreement with China National Nuclear …

Energy saving

National Grid awards “shutdown” contracts

Added: 11 Sep 2014

National Grid is in the process of awarding contracts to major energy users such as process facilit…