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North Sea offshore oil and gas

Report backs CCS tax break for oil industry

Added: 16 Jun 2015

The government must introduce tax breaks and other fiscal incentives to encourage the use of Carbon…

National Grid control centre

Industry meets to expand plant shutdowns

Added: 15 Jun 2015

Representatives from the process industries will meet in London this week to discuss how to grow th…

Wastewater treatment plant

Innovative process starts at sewage plant

Added: 10 Jun 2015

Nottingham’s Stoke Bardolph wastewater treatment works is close to completing a three-stage biologi…

The Chase nature reserve

Thames Water pollution fine upheld

Added: 5 Jun 2015

The Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a £250,000 fine imposed on Thames Water for polluting a nature…

Gas detection

Have a safe summer

Added: 3 Jun 2015

So summer is here, and there’s more than whiff of safety issues in the air.

Dust explosion short course at the Wolfson Centre

New hazards: COMAH 2015

Added: 3 Jun 2015

The introduction of new COMAH regulations will see many smaller firms affected by the rules for the…

Manufacturing Barometer

Manufacturing loses momentum

Added: 1 Jun 2015

Figures released today suggest manufacturing is growing at a slower rate than expected, though CIPS…

David Cameron 10 Downing Street

Manufacturers want EU referendum

Added: 26 May 2015

UK manufacturers have called for a referendum on European Union (EU) membership to take place by au…

Atlas Copco Z compressor

Compressing costs

Added: 20 May 2015

New energy-efficient technologies mean compressors needn’t cost the earth.

SSE Ferrybridge coal power station

Ferrybridge power station to close

Added: 20 May 2015

SSE has announced it will shut its Ferrybridge coal-fired power station in West Yorkshire next year…

Business secretary Sajid Javid

Government crackdown on late payments

Added: 20 May 2015

Newly-appointed business secretary Sajid Javid yesterday used his first speech to promise the gover…

Cory biogas facility

Biogas grid worries fuel consultation

Added: 19 May 2015

Distribution trade body Energy Networks Association (ENA) has issued a consultation to gather indus…

EI

Energy Institute awards competition

Added: 19 May 2015

The EI Awards competition is calling for entries from all sectors of the global energy sector. Any …

David Cameron 10 Downing Street

Key industry ministers appointed to cabinet

Added: 12 May 2015

The government’s new-look all-Conservative cabinet will meet at Downing Street later today, with Pr…

Ed Miliband

Election skills

Added: 6 May 2015

Following tomorrow’s general election, key engineering issues such as skills shortages look set to …

Dungeness B nuclear power station

Dungeness in £30m maintenance shutdown

Added: 30 Apr 2015

EDF Energy will tomorrow take one of the two nuclear reactors at Dungeness B power station in Kent …

Dounreay birds eye view

Amec FW wins nuclear decommissioning role

Added: 16 Apr 2015

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has awarded Amec Foster Wheeler a contract to provide d…

Weltec AD

Weltec builds on biogas success

Added: 8 Apr 2015

Weltec Biopower is building a 500-kW anaerobic digestion plant for vegetable producer Gilfresh Prod…

Ineos Grangemouth

Funding for Grangemouth CCS

Added: 27 Mar 2015

The UK and Scottish governments today announced joint funding for a proposed Carbon Capture and Sto…

David Cameron meets apprentices at BAE Systems

PM launches degree apprenticeships

Added: 12 Mar 2015

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans to rollout nine freely available degree apprentice…