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Sea Change
Added: 22 Apr 2015
Plummeting oil prices have added further impetus to the Wood Review’s call for greater production e…

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.

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 …

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 stand ultra-deep test
Added: 14 Apr 2015
Badger Meter control valves are making an important contribution in oil extraction applications in …

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…

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 builds on biogas success
Added: 8 Apr 2015
Weltec Biopower is building a 500-kW anaerobic digestion plant for vegetable producer Gilfresh Prod…

GexCon buys into 3D market
Added: 1 Apr 2015
GexCon, a supplier of dispersion, explosion and fire modelling software, has announced the acquisit…

Funding for Grangemouth CCS
Added: 27 Mar 2015
The UK and Scottish governments today announced joint funding for a proposed Carbon Capture and Sto…
North Sea emergency simulated
Added: 24 Mar 2015
The emergency services and RAF were among those working with Oil & Gas industry representatives las…

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…
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…

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 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 …
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…

North Sea exploration “collapses”
Added: 24 Feb 2015
New oil & gas investments falling but production predicted to grow in 2015.

Shale ambiguity helps nobody
Added: 16 Feb 2015
Delaying vital decisions on shale gas development until after the general election doesn’t help sup…

MPs approve weakened shale regulations
Added: 16 Feb 2015
The Infrastructure Act gained Royal Assent last week, but only after regulations on shale gas devel…

Subsea processing “major focus” for operators
Added: 13 Feb 2015
Despite volatile oil prices, subsea processing continues to be a major focus for the most forward l…