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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…
Maintaining Atlantis
Added: 13 Feb 2015
Effective maintenance of subsea oil & gas processing equipment is both crucial and expensive. Greg …
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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

Upgraded global oil & gas facility unveiled
Added: 3 Feb 2015
Compressor manufacturer Atlas Copco last month unveiled its upgraded and expanded global production…

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 …

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 'improved'
Added: 27 Jan 2015
Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Rice University have developed a computational scree…