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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…

Amec Dunlin A North Sea oil

North Sea exploration “collapses”

Added: 24 Feb 2015

New oil & gas investments falling but production predicted to grow in 2015.

David Cameron IGas shale gas site visit

Shale ambiguity helps nobody

Added: 16 Feb 2015

Delaying vital decisions on shale gas development until after the general election doesn’t help sup…

Cuadrilla shale site

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…

Upstream Intelligence

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…

Subsea platform

Maintaining Atlantis

Added: 13 Feb 2015

Effective maintenance of subsea oil & gas processing equipment is both crucial and expensive. Greg …

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

Sensors hold the key to oil & gas survival

Added: 13 Feb 2015

With politicians demanding monitoring of shale sites and offshore platforms relying on data to rema…

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Critical decade for CCS success

Added: 13 Feb 2015

The UK is entering a critical decade for the delivery of a low carbon economy by 2050, with Carbon …

North Sea offshore oil and gas

Oil & Gas suppliers suffering

Added: 12 Feb 2015

Suppliers to the oil & gas industry are already beginning to suffer the impact of low oil prices, w…

Shale fracking

Green light for Roseacre Wood shale site

Added: 6 Feb 2015

Shale gas firm Cuadrilla has today been granted the environmental permits it needs to carry out exp…

Stan Higgins

Gone from the wind – industrial CCS

Added: 4 Feb 2015

Almost half of the emissions that need to be captured to battle climate change come from the proces…

Food lab testing facility

Corrosion testing facility expanded

Added: 3 Feb 2015

Growing demand for asset life extension solutions in the oil and gas industry has led Intertek to i…

Atlas Copco Systems Hemel Hempstead compressor workshop

Upgraded global oil & gas facility unveiled

Added: 3 Feb 2015

Compressor manufacturer Atlas Copco last month unveiled its upgraded and expanded global production…

Shale gas

MPs reject shale ban as Lancashire decides

Added: 28 Jan 2015

Parliament has rejected calls for an outright ban on shale gas development, although projects will …

U-Series

Subsea precision tools unveiled at expo

Added: 27 Jan 2015

Engineering specialist Power Jacks is set to launch a suite of bespoke subsea electro-mechanical ac…

Biofuel processing

Biofuel processing 'improved'

Added: 27 Jan 2015

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Rice University have developed a computational scree…

Ineos director Tom Crotty

Ineos slams MPs’ call to ban shale gas

Added: 26 Jan 2015

Ineos has attacked politicians calling for a ban on shale gas development in the UK, describing a r…

Cuadrilla shale site

MPs call for fracking ban as Cuadrilla blocked

Added: 22 Jan 2015

MPs from all major political parties have submitted proposals against hydraulic fracturing as part …