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Premier Oil North Sea platform

Emerson wins $17m North Sea job

Added: 4 Sep 2013

North Sea oil firm Premier Oil has awarded Emerson Process Management a $17 million (£11m) contract…

Cuadrilla shale site

Cuadrilla pulls Balcombe planning

Added: 4 Sep 2013

Developer to submit new planning application as the Government seeks to relax existing rules.

North Sea offshore oil and gas

UK oil & gas investment rate “unsustainable”

Added: 4 Sep 2013

The current rate of investment in North Sea oil & gas assets is unsustainable and better-targeted m…

Landia Flowmaker pump

Chinese wastewater win for Landia

Added: 4 Sep 2013

Landia has been selected to supply 78 pumps to a Chinese tourist centre in the country’s Guilin zon…

BillerudKorsnäs Pulp and Paper industry, Karlsborg

UK manufacturing reaches 3 year peak

Added: 3 Sep 2013

A surge in manufacturing output has seen production hit a three-year high, according to data releas…

FPSO

Sulzer scores oil & gas jobs

Added: 3 Sep 2013

Swiss manufacturer wins contracts to supply pumps to vessels in Brazil and Australia.

Innovia Wigton Cumbria factory

Film factory in £20m upgrade

Added: 30 Aug 2013

A producer of plastic film for the packaging market has announced a £20 million upgrade of its Cumb…

Buncefield2

Oil storage safety still lacking

Added: 27 Aug 2013

Many oil and gas storage sites around the UK have yet to upgrade their safety systems, nearly eight…

Cuadrilla shale site

UK won’t make US fracking monitoring mistakes

Added: 23 Aug 2013

The man whose firm is monitoring gas movements at all of Cuadrilla’s UK sites says projects here wi…

Drax Power Plant 2

Drax backs sustainable biomass rules

Added: 22 Aug 2013

Drax today backed government plans to strip biomass projects of financial support if their fuel com…

Biomass

Government sets rules for biomass race

Added: 22 Aug 2013

Biomass developers today discovered what they must do to secure a slice of the 400MW subsidy cap se…

Chemicals processing

Profit hopes spur chemical spend

Added: 22 Aug 2013

Increased hopes of rising profit margins in the chemicals sector is leading the majority of firms t…

BP rig oil2

Oil and Gas investment to hit £13.5bn

Added: 21 Aug 2013

Capital spending in the UK offshore oil and gas industry is expected to hit an all-time high of £13…

Air Products efw 2

Manufacturers ready to invest in new kit

Added: 21 Aug 2013

A government-funded survey of small and medium-sized manufacturers today revealed that half of the …

  AA frackiing Shale 22

Arsenic found in water near US fracking sites

Added: 19 Aug 2013

Researchers have discovered elevated levels of contaminants such as arsenic and selenium in water n…

Ronnie Leten 2

Atlas Copco to buy Edwards for £1bn

Added: 19 Aug 2013

Sweden’s Atlas Copco this morning announced it had agreed a deal to acquire UK vacuum pump manufact…

No Dash for Gas Reclaim the Power camp site

Cuadrilla scales back Balcombe work

Added: 16 Aug 2013

Shale gas developer Cuadrilla is today scaling back its exploratory work at an oil well in Balcombe…

Brigg renewable energy plant

Pension fund enters UK biomass

Added: 14 Aug 2013

Danish pension fund PensionDanmark yesterday announced it is investing £160 million in a biomass pr…

Wireless communication

Wireless devices communicate without batteries

Added: 14 Aug 2013

Engineers from the University of Washington have designed a wireless communication system that allo…

RWE npower Tilbury biomass

Subsidy squeeze closes Tilbury biomass

Added: 13 Aug 2013

The UK’s first ever coal plant to convert to biomass ceased generating electricity today after the …