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David Cameron 10 Downing Street

Key industry ministers appointed to cabinet

Added: 12 May 2015

The government’s new-look all-Conservative cabinet will meet at Downing Street later today, with Pr…

Ed Miliband

Election skills

Added: 6 May 2015

Following tomorrow’s general election, key engineering issues such as skills shortages look set to …

North Sea offshore oil and gas

Decommissioning in the spotlight

Added: 6 May 2015

ABB study aims to identify most efficient strategies to promote circular economy.

BP chief executive Bob Dudley

BP refining profits double

Added: 28 Apr 2015

BP today announced downstream oil & gas pre-tax profits of $2.2 billion (£1.44bn) for the first thr…

Amec Dunlin A North Sea oil

Sea Change

Added: 22 Apr 2015

Plummeting oil prices have added further impetus to the Wood Review’s call for greater production e…

Nick Clegg

Lib Dems to double innovation spend

Added: 15 Apr 2015

Party’s manifesto supports Catapult Centres, while Ukip promises to scrap STEM subject tuition fees.

Shell prelude FLNG3

Oil prices driving Shell-BG merger

Added: 15 Apr 2015

Shell’s proposed £47 billion takeover of BG Group could be the first of many oil & gas mergers and …

David Cameron

Skills concern over Tory manifesto

Added: 14 Apr 2015

The Conservative Party launched its manifesto for the general election today and immediately drew c…

Control valves

Control valves stand ultra-deep test

Added: 14 Apr 2015

Badger Meter control valves are making an important contribution in oil extraction applications in …

Ed Miliband

Labour manifesto focuses on industry

Added: 13 Apr 2015

The Labour Party was today the first of the major political parties to launch its manifesto for the…

JD hoist

Hoists handle offshore seawater pumps

Added: 8 Apr 2015

When the seawater pump on an offshore rig needed replacing, an air hoist supplied by materials hand…

Weltec AD

Weltec builds on biogas success

Added: 8 Apr 2015

Weltec Biopower is building a 500-kW anaerobic digestion plant for vegetable producer Gilfresh Prod…

Dust explosion short course at the Wolfson Centre

GexCon buys into 3D market

Added: 1 Apr 2015

GexCon, a supplier of dispersion, explosion and fire modelling software, has announced the acquisit…

Ineos Grangemouth

Funding for Grangemouth CCS

Added: 27 Mar 2015

The UK and Scottish governments today announced joint funding for a proposed Carbon Capture and Sto…

BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010

North Sea emergency simulated

Added: 24 Mar 2015

The emergency services and RAF were among those working with Oil & Gas industry representatives las…

Amec Dunlin A North Sea oil

Budget 2015: North Sea given tax breaks

Added: 18 Mar 2015

North Sea oil & gas was today handed tax breaks including a 10% cut in the supplementary rate by ch…

Buncefield fire

Safety: a ticking timebomb

Added: 11 Mar 2015

Later this year the process industry will mark an anniversary it would prefer to forget: 10 years s…

Buncefield2

Process safety: barely begun

Added: 11 Mar 2015

Ten years on from the Buncefield explosion, only small steps have been taken to establish a process…

Ineos Upstream chief executive Gary Haywood

Ineos acquires IGas shale sites

Added: 10 Mar 2015

Ineos has today announced a deal to acquire a 50% interest in seven IGas shale gas licences in the …

ABB’s HVDC Light on Statoil’s Troll-A gas platform

Powering platforms

Added: 25 Feb 2015

ABB’s work with Statoil and BP in the North Sea shows the advantages in connecting offshore oil and…