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Cuadrilla pulls Balcombe planning
Added: 4 Sep 2013
Developer to submit new planning application as the Government seeks to relax existing rules.
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…
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…
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…
Sulzer scores oil & gas jobs
Added: 3 Sep 2013
Swiss manufacturer wins contracts to supply pumps to vessels in Brazil and Australia.
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…
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…
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 backs sustainable biomass rules
Added: 22 Aug 2013
Drax today backed government plans to strip biomass projects of financial support if their fuel com…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 devices communicate without batteries
Added: 14 Aug 2013
Engineers from the University of Washington have designed a wireless communication system that allo…
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 …
Cameron fracking backing against public opinion
Added: 13 Aug 2013
Prime Minister David Cameron’s public backing of shale gas development goes largely against public …
