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Increased output

Added: 27 Jan 2005

Nova Chemicals is to invest $210 million modernising its Ontario, Canada-based ethylene fle…

How risky is it?

Added: 26 Jan 2005

The UK Environment Agency is calling on industry to take a closer look at a chemical called…

Mercury monitor

Added: 25 Jan 2005

Anticipating legislation to extend the requirements for the measurement of mercury levels i…

Solid protection

Added: 25 Jan 2005

As health, safety and environmental concerns increase, there is a need for the process industries t…

Genome hope for clean-up

Added: 25 Jan 2005

A US research team has deciphered the genome sequence of the only microbe known to degrade tetrachl…

Acrylic acid from propane

Added: 24 Jan 2005

Rohm and Haas has been awarded a $5.2 million grant by the US Department of Energy to develop a new…

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.

A better image

Added: 18 Jan 2005

Rice University doctoral student Balaji Sitharaman has created a new class of contrast agen…

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…

Sempra awarded $1.4 billion gas contract

Added: 12 Jan 2005

Sempra LNG, a unit of Sempra Energy, has been awarded a $1.4 billion natural gas supply contract by…

Shell sells Bakersfield refinery

Added: 11 Jan 2005

Shell announced yesterday that its Shell Oil Products US subsidiary has signed an agreement to sell…

Recycling for Roy

Added: 5 Jan 2005

If Santa brought you a new mobile phone for Christmas, you can now put your old one to good…

Getting more for less

Added: 5 Jan 2005

ABB has developed a decision-support tool to help power plant managers solve one of their m…

Steam secret of natural fission

Added: 22 Nov 2004

The world's only known natural nuclear reactor, which decommissioned itself over two billio…

Full steam ahead

Added: 22 Nov 2004

The new combined heat and power plant under construction at BASF's Ludwigshafen site demonstrates t…

Cyanide offences

Added: 17 Nov 2004

US-owned Sevalco has been ordered to appear before the UK Crown Court after it released up to seven…

ABB hopes to double sales in China by 2008

Added: 5 Nov 2004

Power and automation technology giant ABB has revealed plans for a huge expansion of its operations…

Calder Hall applies for decommissioning

Added: 20 Oct 2004

Calder Hall on the Sellafield site has applied to the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate for consen…

Drugs in water worry

Added: 20 Oct 2004

Once drugs have done their work in the body, they, or their residues, inevitably end up in the wast…