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Nuclear

Nuclear talent-sharing scheme launched

Added: 23 Oct 2013

The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) and its partners have launched a schem…

Vince Cable

Chemicals sector aiming for 50% growth

Added: 22 Oct 2013

MPs and industry leaders are meeting today to discuss the challenges facing chemical sector plans t…

EDF Hinkley Point C site preparation

Hinkley Point C nuclear deal agreed

Added: 21 Oct 2013

EDF Energy today confirmed it had reached an agreement with the UK government over subsidies and de…

Delegates at the launch of EDF Fenice centre

EDF launches energy efficiency centre

Added: 18 Oct 2013

EDF yesterday launched a dedicated energy efficiency centre at the home of its Italian subsidiary E…

CCS plant

Industry faces peak power shutdowns

Added: 17 Oct 2013

Industrial energy users may be asked to shut down production at times of peak power demand, accordi…

Ineos Grangemouth

“D-Day” for Grangemouth

Added: 17 Oct 2013

Ineos today claimed it was “D-Day” for the future of its Grangemouth refinery in Scotland, which re…

Ineos Grangemouth

Ineos Grangemouth strike called off

Added: 16 Oct 2013

A planned 48-hour strike at Ineos’ Grangemouth refinery site was today called off as union bosses a…

GE maintenance engineer

Industrial Internet could save $20bn a year

Added: 15 Oct 2013

A report published by GE has found that the Industrial Internet could save industries up to $20 bil…

North Sea offshore oil and gas

Jacobs wins BP North Sea terminal upgrade

Added: 14 Oct 2013

BP has hired Jacobs Engineering Group to deliver its £125 million upgrade of the Sullom Voe termina…

Chemical Plant

Energy efficiency investment stalling

Added: 11 Oct 2013

Investment in energy efficient plant and equipment, particularly in the chemicals and food and drin…

EDF Hinkley Point C nuclear power wide

Nuclear strike price “agreed”

Added: 10 Oct 2013

The UK government and EDF Energy have reportedly agreed a strike price for nuclear power-generated …

Air Products efw 2

Waste gas firm secures £1m investment

Added: 8 Oct 2013

A UK firm developing advanced gasification from waste projects including Air Products’ Tees Valley …

Atlas Copco balloon

Edwards shareholders approve takeover

Added: 4 Oct 2013

Shareholders of UK vacuum pump manufacturer Edwards Group today approved the proposed £1.04bn takeo…

Cuadrilla shale site

Birds shut down Cuadrilla site

Added: 4 Oct 2013

Shale gas developer Cuadrilla announces it is closing one of three sites on Lancashire coast over c…

Cyber

Hacking threatens energy firms most

Added: 4 Oct 2013

Energy firms and SCADA systems are the companies and technologies at highest risk of cyber attack, …

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell “greatest engineer”

Added: 3 Oct 2013

A new poll has named the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, as the greatest engineer…

Diageo Guinness St. James Gate brewery

Alfa Laval wins Guinness deal

Added: 2 Oct 2013

Swedish pump manufacturer Alfa Laval today announced it had won a SEK 60 million (£5.8m) contract t…

RWE npower Tilbury biomass

Process groups fear energy price freeze

Added: 1 Oct 2013

The Labour Party’s plans to freeze energy bills for 20 months have raised fears over energy securit…

CCS plant

CCS “most efficient” power technology

Added: 1 Oct 2013

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one of the most efficient technologies for cutting emissions wh…

David Willetts

£400m for science and engineering studies

Added: 30 Sep 2013

Today the government announced a £400 million investment to boost science and engineering study in …