All Power & Water


Cool olefins

Added: 5 Jul 2005

A Canadian consortium is developing a technology that will allow olefins to be manufactured more ef…

Asset management

Added: 10 Jun 2005



Good asset management is synonymous with having a well-maintained plant in the first place, and…

Differential pressure

Added: 10 Jun 2005

Accurately determining the level of water/hydrocarbon interfaces is critical to the operation of eq…

Biofuel boiler

Added: 10 Jun 2005

Aker Kvaerner has won a contract to supply a biofuel-fired boiler plant for paper and board plant i…

Mercury control

Added: 7 Jun 2005

The US Department of Energy has issued a license to private industry to commercially develop a prom…

South Hook control contract

Added: 11 May 2005

Yokogawa has won a £4 million lump sum turnkey contract to provide instrumentation and controls for…

Winfrith decommissioning contract

Added: 11 May 2005

UKAEA has awarded a £6million contract to decommission the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor at …

Managing energy

Added: 11 May 2005

With rising energy prices, the advent of emissions trading and deregulation of utilities suppliers,…

Market forces

Added: 10 May 2005

The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme proved controversial from the off. Stuart Nathan repo…

Coal to liquids boost

Added: 10 May 2005

Foster Wheeler is to participate in a feasibility study for two 80 000 bpd coal-to-liquids faciliti…

A clean source of power

Added: 4 May 2005

Cleaning up wastewater and generating electricity at the same time — it might seem too good to be t…

A question of delivery

Added: 11 Apr 2005

With fuel cells now beginning to arrive on the roads, Neil Whitwell looks at how suppliers are opti…

Running on hydrogen

Added: 8 Apr 2005

A $380million research programme will evaluate fuel cells and the development of an infrastructure …

Nuclear project

Added: 8 Apr 2005

Aker Kvaerner is to build a facility to remove, sort and transfer nuclear waste from the Dungeness …

Successful tests for oil conversion

Added: 18 Mar 2005

A process developed by Californian firm Ivanhoe Energy could lead to a new source of light oil, a v…

A refined manifold

Added: 9 Mar 2005

Parker Instrumentation has developed a novel instrumentation manifold for BP's Grangemouth oil and …

Norwegian gas

Added: 3 Feb 2005

Canadian oil and gas producer Talisman Energy is to buy all of the outstanding shares of Pe…

Texas oil and gas

Added: 21 Jan 2005

AMEC, the UK-based project management and services company, has acquired Houston-based oil …

Billions from BP

Added: 20 Jan 2005

BP today revealed its plans to spend up to $2 billion on its UK North Sea business in 2005.

Cleaner coaches spun out of Oxford

Added: 17 Jan 2005

A new fuel additive developed by Oxford researchers and commercialised by Oxford spin-out c…