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Big data Honeywell

Big data

Added: 19 Nov 2015

Integration with cloud and mobile technologies is changing the face of data acquisition.

North Sea offshore oil and gas

Decommissioning sector ramps up

Added: 19 Nov 2015

The UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) is likely to see decommissioning expenditure of £16.9 billion by 20…

Quantum research on show

Quantum research in the spotlight

Added: 18 Nov 2015

UK research teams last week demonstrated how study of the quantum realm is helping to advance measu…

Chemical industry

UK still lags in innovation stakes

Added: 17 Nov 2015

The UK has once again failed to make an appearance on a list of the world’s top 100 most innovative…

On the level

On the level

Added: 17 Nov 2015

Level measurement can offer a line of defence against industrial spills, and regulators are taking …

Fracking fluid an 'outstanding achievement'

Non-toxic fracking fluid scoops award

Added: 10 Nov 2015

An energy-saving, non-toxic hydraulic fracturing (fracking) fluid was declared the overall winner a…

MIcro-generation: a new frontier for process control

Micro-generation: a new frontier

Added: 4 Nov 2015

The UK’s rapidly growing waste-to-energy market is catching the eye of control technology firms.

Calibration rig for UK water flow

Calibration rig for UK water flow

Added: 4 Nov 2015

The Endress+Hauser UK water flow calibration rig incorporates the latest in flow technology, and is…

Detecting toxic and explosive gases

Detecting toxic and explosive gases

Added: 4 Nov 2015

The Gas-Pro multigas detector from Crowcon features a confined space entry (CSE) function for use i…

Progress gas analysers improve efficiency

Progress gas analysers improve efficiency

Added: 4 Nov 2015

Quantitech has launched a new range of progress gas analysers, based on tunable diode laser absorpt…

Shale drilling illustration

Pump up the volume

Added: 2 Nov 2015

Pumps and valves technology will have to adapt if shale gas is ever to be extracted in the UK.

Shale mates?

Shale mates: UK fracking future

Added: 2 Nov 2015

As the UK moves to emulate the US shale boom, Michelle Knott investigates how similar the engineeri…

Linde gas plant

Linde opens pilot synthesis gas plant

Added: 19 Oct 2015

Linde has invested €5 million (£3.7 million) in a new plant that will produce low-emission synthesi…

Ineos Jim Ratcliffe

Ineos acquires North Sea assets

Added: 12 Oct 2015

Oil and gas exploration and production firm Ineos Upstream has acquired all UK North Sea gas fields…

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Urgent call for CCS funding

Added: 7 Oct 2015

Targets for lowering carbon emissions from industry will remain out of reach without carbon dioxide…

Will Leonard

Oil & gas skills potential

Added: 30 Sep 2015

Despite the turmoil facing the oil & gas sector, some may have thought that skills issues had subsi…

A drilling ship Polar Pioneer in Dutch Harbor, Alaska

Shell pulls out of Alaska

Added: 29 Sep 2015

Oil and gas firm Shell has announced it will abandon drilling operations off the coast of Alaska.

LGA

Process gas analyser range for UK

Added: 22 Sep 2015

Quantitech has launched its latest range of process gas analysers based on tuneable diode laser abs…

Cyber security

Hacked off?

Added: 22 Sep 2015

Microsoft’s new operating system (OS) Windows 10 was officially launched in July. But how has it af…

Åsgard subsea compression

Subsea gas plant is world first

Added: 22 Sep 2015

The world’s first subsea gas compression plant has officially come online, its developer Statoil ha…