All Environment

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…

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…
