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Cuadrilla shale site

Cuadrilla targets Blackpool shale sites

Added: 4 Feb 2014

Shale oil & gas developer Cuadrilla today announced plans for exploration at two new sites near Bla…

Buncefield2

Risky business

Added: 29 Jan 2014

Maintaining safety standards as they evolve is an ongoing challenge in hazardous environments, repo…

CCS plant

Renewables project gets green light

Added: 27 Jan 2014

Scottish renewables firm Forth Energy has been given approval to build a combined heat and power (C…

David Cameron World Economic Forum Davos 2014

Shale vital for “reshoring” says PM

Added: 24 Jan 2014


Prime Minister David Cameron today told world leaders gathered in Switzerland that development of s…

UK's largest renewables project

Largest biogas project selects suppliers

Added: 22 Jan 2014

A Scottish distillery that is building the UK’s largest biogas to grid project has selected the fir…

Offshore wind farm at dusk

Plan to pay process plants to use electricity

Added: 7 Jan 2014

Exclusive: National Grid is considering paying major energy users such as process plants to use ele…

Shipwrecked Beer

Brewers hit emissions target early

Added: 23 Dec 2013

The UK brewing sector has reached its 2020 carbon emissions reduction target eight years early, a n…

Hitachi Horizon Wylfa nuclear plant

£190bn of process projects in national plan

Added: 4 Dec 2013

Over £190 billion of projects featuring process technologies have been identified in the latest ver…

Sita Severnside Energy from Waste

£1.4bn deal for 34MW waste plant

Added: 3 Dec 2013

Hitachi Zosen Inova is to build a 34MW energy from waste (EfW) plant after its client SITA signed a…

Shale gas fracking

Shale impact set to be "minimised"

Added: 27 Nov 2013

Water UK and the UK Onshore Operators Group (UKOOG) will work together to help minimise the impact …

Cory Environmental opens its first AD plant in Somerset

Cory opens first AD plant

Added: 26 Nov 2013

Cory Environmental has opened its first anaerobic digestion (AD) plant capable of generating 500kw …

Biogen AD plant

AD feed-in tariffs "can be withdrawn"

Added: 22 Nov 2013

The government should consider withdrawing feed-in tariffs (FiTs) for anaerobic digestion (AD) plan…

Greenpeace Warsaw coal protest

Coal industry calls for technology backing

Added: 18 Nov 2013

Leading figures in the global coal industry gathered in Warsaw today to call for governments to bac…

Energy efficient technologies aren't always implemented

Cost concerns limit energy efficiency investment

Added: 12 Nov 2013

Financial concerns trump environmental ones when it comes to considering investment in energy effic…

Centrifugal air compressor

Ingersoll Rand launches efficient centrifugal compressor

Added: 7 Nov 2013

The Centac C800 centrifugal air compressor is designed for assembly, automotive food and beverage, …

EDF apprentice trainee skills2

Review calls for young engineers

Added: 4 Nov 2013

The Perkins Review will highlight the need to attract more young people to careers within the engin…

Shale gas

Lords to hear shale extraction evidence

Added: 1 Nov 2013

The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee will hear evidence next week from companies wanting t…

CCS plant

Surge in combined heat & power use

Added: 31 Oct 2013

Combined heat and power (CHP) energy generation has seen an increase in its share of the UK supply,…

Water

UK & US to work on water projects

Added: 30 Oct 2013

Engineers from UK & US universities will collaborate on the ‘clean water for all’ projects to devel…

The Cambridge MBA offers scholarship for process engineers

Added: 14 Oct 2013

Watch this interview with past LyondellBasell Cambridge MBA Scholarship recipient, now part of a le…