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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…

Poisoned Irish blubber

Added: 14 Apr 2005

A Dutch researcher has discovered that one isomer of the toxin HBCD accumulates in dolphins and por…

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 …

BP begins Texas City investigation

Added: 8 Apr 2005

Investigations have begun into the explosion at BP’s Texas City refinery in March, which killed 15 …

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…

Brewer fined

Added: 11 Mar 2005

Carlsberg UK was fined a total of £25,000 and ordered to pay £2,001 costs by Selby magistrates on M…

A refined manifold

Added: 9 Mar 2005

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

AMEC expands environmental services

Added: 8 Mar 2005

AMEC has bought the UK-based environmental consultancy, Environmental Advice Centre (EAC), for £1.4…

Breaking it down

Added: 4 Mar 2005

Nanoparticles of gold and palladium are the most effective catalysts yet identified for remediation…

Photosynthesis for hydrogen

Added: 4 Mar 2005

Generating hydrogen is one of the major obstacles in the way of the widespread adoption of fuel cel…

Supply-side sustainability

Added: 23 Feb 2005

With the REACH regulations looming, process companies in the chemicals sector are taking stock of t…

Going green

Added: 23 Feb 2005

In an article in The Guardian this month, Adrian Wilkes, chairman of the Environmental Industries C…

Norwegian gas

Added: 3 Feb 2005

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

Million-dollar challenge

Added: 2 Feb 2005

The US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is to award a $1 million prize for a practical…

Taking toxins out of the water

Added: 31 Jan 2005

A researcher at the Washington University in St. Louis has discovered an effective way to r…