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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…

BP plant operator

BP seeks future leaders in recruitment drive

Added: 2 Sep 2014

BP today launched a two-month recruitment drive to hire up to 30 potential new leaders of its globa…

IGas chairman Francis Gugen

IGas nears fracking in North West

Added: 2 Sep 2014

Shale developer IGas yesterday revealed it was ready to design a fracking programme for its license…

GE Technology Solutions Center

GE launches oil & gas technology centre

Added: 27 Aug 2014

GE Oil & Gas yesterday officially launched its new $5 million technology centre in Norway.

Premier Oil North Sea platform

Rotork buys Xylem oil & gas valves

Added: 19 Aug 2014

Xylem has sold its UK oil & gas valves business to Rotork for $30 million (£18 million).

Ineos Grangemouth

Ineos buys majority shale licence

Added: 19 Aug 2014

Chemicals firm to become “major player” in the UK onshore gas production sector.

Amec Dunlin A North Sea oil

UK oil estimates “incredibly pessimistic”

Added: 18 Aug 2014

North Sea oil & gas estimates could be far higher than economic watchdog forecasts, according to a …

Molikpak platform, Russia

Honeywell to upgrade offshore platform

Added: 12 Aug 2014

Honeywell Process Solutions is set to upgrade safety and process systems in the Sakhalin shelf.

Shale tweet

DECC contradicts fracking poll

Added: 12 Aug 2014

Figures released by the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) contradict yesterday’s poll th…

Shale fracking

Majority of UK supports fracking

Added: 11 Aug 2014

Public opinion poll suggests ’widespread backing’ for shale gas production to go ahead in the UK.

Amec Dunlin A North Sea oil

North Sea optimism hits five-year low

Added: 8 Aug 2014

Optimism in the UK’s offshore oil & gas sector is now at its lowest for five years, a new survey ha…

University Technical Colleges Skills

New colleges focus on engineering

Added: 6 Aug 2014

Five of the seven new University Technical Colleges (UTCs) announced by chancellor George Osborne y…

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Drax CCS pipeline work awarded

Added: 5 Aug 2014

Technip subsidiary Genesis has been hired by National Grid to carry out design work for a pipeline …

GGS GasClam monitoring Blackpool shale gas site

Shale environmental video goes live

Added: 31 Jul 2014

Cuadrilla yesterday posted a video online outlining the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) proce…

IWCF CEO David Price

Well control course launched

Added: 30 Jul 2014

A free online course aimed at improving awareness of the life cycle of an oil well has been launche…

DECC shale licence map

Shale drilling licensing launched

Added: 28 Jul 2014

The government this morning launched a new licensing round for onshore oil & gas exploration, aimed…

FOE tweet

Traffic fears block shale bid

Added: 22 Jul 2014

Concerns over potentially high levels of traffic have led planners to block a proposed exploratory …