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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 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…

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 launches oil & gas technology centre
Added: 27 Aug 2014
GE Oil & Gas yesterday officially launched its new $5 million technology centre in Norway.

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 …

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 invests in valves factory
Added: 19 Aug 2014
The new building will accommodate test facilities for the production of KSB’s triple-offset butterf…

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 buys majority shale licence
Added: 19 Aug 2014
Chemicals firm to become “major player” in the UK onshore gas production sector.

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 …

Honeywell to upgrade offshore platform
Added: 12 Aug 2014
Honeywell Process Solutions is set to upgrade safety and process systems in the Sakhalin shelf.
DECC contradicts fracking poll
Added: 12 Aug 2014
Figures released by the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) contradict yesterday’s poll th…

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.

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…

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…

New colleges focus on engineering
Added: 6 Aug 2014
Five of the seven new University Technical Colleges (UTCs) announced by chancellor George Osborne y…

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 …

Increased production squeezes innovation
Added: 4 Aug 2014
Manufacturers’ spending on innovation is slowing as firms attempt to manage rising output levels, a…

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 …

Shale environmental video goes live
Added: 31 Jul 2014
Cuadrilla yesterday posted a video online outlining the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) proce…