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North Sea optimism hits five-year low

Added: 8 Aug 2014

Optimism in the UK’s offshore oil & gas sector is now at its lowest for five years, a new survey ha…

Chemical Compounds

Industry slams EU nano register

Added: 7 Aug 2014

EU proposals to create a new register for nanomaterials were today criticised by the UK chemical in…

University Technical Colleges Skills

New colleges focus on engineering

Added: 6 Aug 2014

Five of the seven new University Technical Colleges (UTCs) announced by chancellor George Osborne y…

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Drax CCS pipeline work awarded

Added: 5 Aug 2014

Technip subsidiary Genesis has been hired by National Grid to carry out design work for a pipeline …

Chocolate manufacturing plant

Increased production squeezes innovation

Added: 4 Aug 2014

Manufacturers’ spending on innovation is slowing as firms attempt to manage rising output levels, a…

EDF apprentice trainee skills2

Just 6% of engineers are women

Added: 31 Jul 2014

On average just 6% of engineers in the UK are female, with the highest proportions occuring in the …

GGS GasClam monitoring Blackpool shale gas site

Shale environmental video goes live

Added: 31 Jul 2014

Cuadrilla yesterday posted a video online outlining the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) proce…

Balmenach distillery

Distillery secures Green Bank funding

Added: 30 Jul 2014

A Scottish distillery has secured finance to build a biomass boiler from the Green Investment Bank …

IWCF CEO David Price

Well control course launched

Added: 30 Jul 2014

A free online course aimed at improving awareness of the life cycle of an oil well has been launche…

Plastic bags

Scientists enhance bioplastics process

Added: 30 Jul 2014

Food waste method could dramatically enhance the way bioplastics are developed, new research sugges…

DECC shale licence map

Shale drilling licensing launched

Added: 28 Jul 2014

The government this morning launched a new licensing round for onshore oil & gas exploration, aimed…

Drax biomass storage domes

Subsidy wins for biomass and AD

Added: 25 Jul 2014

Biomass and anaerobic digestion (AD) plants will be able to compete for £155 million annually under…

Dounreay birds eye view

UK plans national radioactive storage site

Added: 24 Jul 2014

Plans for a single geological disposal facility (GDF) to hold all of the UK’s radioactive waste wer…

Experion Orion console  DCS control system

Innovation spend hits 25-year high

Added: 23 Jul 2014

The number of manufacturers planning to invest in product and process innovation is at its highest …

Chemical compounds

Pharma firms to offer up compounds

Added: 23 Jul 2014

Seven pharmaceuticals companies are offering up their deprioritised compounds to UK researchers.

FOE tweet

Traffic fears block shale bid

Added: 22 Jul 2014

Concerns over potentially high levels of traffic have led planners to block a proposed exploratory …

Nestle apprenctice at work Jordan Phillips

Foreign investment up in process sectors

Added: 21 Jul 2014

Nearly a fifth of all foreign investment in the UK is going to projects in the process sectors, acc…

Ineos Grangemouth

Grangemouth LNG wins guarantee

Added: 17 Jul 2014

Ineos has received a £230 million loan guarantee from the government to support the financing of it…

David Willetts

Process champions moved in reshuffle

Added: 15 Jul 2014

Two key allies of the process industries were today removed from their posts by Prime Minister Davi…

Copyright: Sulzer. Sulzer test bed for submersible pumps in Leeds, UK

Submersible pumps to hit £11bn

Added: 14 Jul 2014

The value of the global submersible pump market is likely to reach $18.9 billion (£11 billion) by 2…