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BP plant operator

BP seeks future leaders in recruitment drive

Added: 2 Sep 2014

BP today launched a two-month recruitment drive to hire up to 30 potential new leaders of its globa…

IGas chairman Francis Gugen

IGas nears fracking in North West

Added: 2 Sep 2014

Shale developer IGas yesterday revealed it was ready to design a fracking programme for its license…

Hitachi Horizon Wylfa nuclear plant

Cavendish Fluor to run 12 nuclear sites

Added: 1 Sep 2014

A joint venture of Fluor and Babcock subsidiary Cavendish Nuclear was today formally awarded the co…

GE Technology Solutions Center

GE launches oil & gas technology centre

Added: 27 Aug 2014

GE Oil & Gas yesterday officially launched its new $5 million technology centre in Norway.

Bosch Rexroth oil analysis

Slick solution for machine downtime

Added: 27 Aug 2014

Bosch Rexroth has launched a new oil analysis service to help service and maintenance engineers to …

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Reform engineering GCSE, industry urges

Added: 21 Aug 2014

On GCSE results day, industry body calls for the reform rather than the removal of engineering qual…

KSB valve factory

KSB invests in valves factory

Added: 19 Aug 2014

The new building will accommodate test facilities for the production of KSB’s triple-offset butterf…

Premier Oil North Sea platform

Rotork buys Xylem oil & gas valves

Added: 19 Aug 2014

Xylem has sold its UK oil & gas valves business to Rotork for $30 million (£18 million).

Ineos Grangemouth

Ineos buys majority shale licence

Added: 19 Aug 2014

Chemicals firm to become “major player” in the UK onshore gas production sector.

Amec Dunlin A North Sea oil

UK oil estimates “incredibly pessimistic”

Added: 18 Aug 2014

North Sea oil & gas estimates could be far higher than economic watchdog forecasts, according to a …

Molikpak platform, Russia

Honeywell to upgrade offshore platform

Added: 12 Aug 2014

Honeywell Process Solutions is set to upgrade safety and process systems in the Sakhalin shelf.

Shale tweet

DECC contradicts fracking poll

Added: 12 Aug 2014

Figures released by the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) contradict yesterday’s poll th…

Shale fracking

Majority of UK supports fracking

Added: 11 Aug 2014

Public opinion poll suggests ’widespread backing’ for shale gas production to go ahead in the UK.

Amec Dunlin A North Sea oil

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…