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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…
Old bloodhound gets a sharper nose
Added: 15 Oct 2004
Purdue University chemists have developed a fast, efficient means of analysing chemical sam…

Wrapping up retardants
Added: 4 Oct 2004
UK-based Axion Recycling is to lead a consortium of companies and institutions in a 19-month projec…
On-site options
Added: 24 Sep 2004
Hannah Scott argues the time is ripe for small companies to consider the potential cost savings of …
Greenhouse gas absorption
Added: 24 Sep 2004
Researchers from Penn State University in Pennsylvania have now found a process which can speed the…