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Energy minister Matthew Hancock (right) opens the National College for Onshore Oil and Gas in Blackp

National shale college launched

Added: 13 Nov 2014

The UK’s first national shale oil & gas college was officially launched in Blackpool yesterday.

Apateq onsite water separation

Pure play

Added: 12 Nov 2014

As global water regulations tighten, filtration technologies are evolving to help process industrie…

Emerson Delta V Factory Acceptance Testing

Emerson expands Leicester facility

Added: 10 Nov 2014

Emerson Process Management has announced the expansion of its Leicester facility, including a new s…

Oil & Gas Authority chief executive Andy Samuel

Oil & Gas Authority boss named

Added: 7 Nov 2014

Andy Samuel, BG Group managing director for exploration and production in Europe, has been named as…

Murco Milford Haven refinery

Milford Haven refinery to close

Added: 6 Nov 2014

Murphy Oil (Murco) yesterday announced that a deal to save its Milford Haven refinery had collapsed…

Cuadrilla site

It’s the economics, stupid

Added: 5 Nov 2014

Everyone, it seems, has an opinion on fracking. But what exactly are those opinions based on?

David Cameron IGas shale gas site visit

Shale time

Added: 4 Nov 2014

Over the coming months the UK will get a much better idea of where and how much shale development w…

fracking

Ineos buys second Scottish shale licence

Added: 13 Oct 2014

Chemical company Ineos today acquired a majority interest in a shale gas development licence in Sco…

Corn field

Chemists boost biofuel production

Added: 3 Oct 2014

Chemical engineers in the US have modified yeast tolerance to enhance biofuel production capacity, …

Peterhad CCGT plant, Aberdeenshire FULL

World’s first CCS plant opens

Added: 2 Oct 2014

The world’s first commercial-scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) will begin operating in Canada …

Ineos Grangemouth

Ineos buys Grangemouth power plant

Added: 2 Oct 2014

Ineos today announced it is buying the gas-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant that provides …

Ineos Jim Ratcliffe

Lost in translation

Added: 1 Oct 2014

The UK and US are two nations divided by the same language…even when it comes to money.

Cuadrilla shale site

UK shale far more complex than US

Added: 1 Oct 2014

Geologists yesterday warned that extraction of UK shale gas would require far more engineering expe…

fracking

Shale shapes Siemens' ambitions

Added: 30 Sep 2014

The $7.6 billion acquisition of Dresser-Rand is Siemens’ latest move in its bid to enter the boomin…

Shale gas

Ineos warned over shale offer

Added: 30 Sep 2014

Ineos’ plan to offer 6% of its UK shale revenues to local communities has been accused of being pot…

Oil & gas facility showing pipework

Siemens buys Dresser-Rand for $7.6bn

Added: 22 Sep 2014

Siemens today announced it was acquiring Dresser-Rand for $7.6 billion (£4.6bn) and aimed to become…

Saltire Union Jack Scottish independence

For oil’s sake?

Added: 16 Sep 2014

If Scottish independence is about oil, then the truth is that Scotland has missed the boat. Thursda…

Shale gas fracking

Fracking “cleared” of water pollution

Added: 16 Sep 2014

Contamination of groundwater near US shale sites was caused by well failures rather the hydraulic f…

German ExxonMobil employees drink fracking fluid

ExxonMobil staff drink fracking fluid

Added: 11 Sep 2014

Staff of ExxonMobil this week appeared on national television in Germany to attempt to show that fr…

Saltire Union Jack Scottish independence - credit Lawrence OP

Engineers against Scottish independence

Added: 9 Sep 2014

More than 60% of chemical engineers in Scotland will vote against independence, a new survey has re…