All Oil & Gas

Shale drilling licensing launched
Added: 28 Jul 2014
The government this morning launched a new licensing round for onshore oil & gas exploration, aimed…

Traffic fears block shale bid
Added: 22 Jul 2014
Concerns over potentially high levels of traffic have led planners to block a proposed exploratory …

Foreign investment up in process sectors
Added: 21 Jul 2014
Nearly a fifth of all foreign investment in the UK is going to projects in the process sectors, acc…

Grangemouth LNG wins guarantee
Added: 17 Jul 2014
Ineos has received a £230 million loan guarantee from the government to support the financing of it…

Reshuffle: What now for shale?
Added: 16 Jul 2014
Yesterday the shale oil & gas industry lost one of its most effective political champions to the Mi…

Process champions moved in reshuffle
Added: 15 Jul 2014
Two key allies of the process industries were today removed from their posts by Prime Minister Davi…

Submersible pumps to hit £11bn
Added: 14 Jul 2014
The value of the global submersible pump market is likely to reach $18.9 billion (£11 billion) by 2…

Treasury launches North Sea tax review
Added: 14 Jul 2014
The government today launched a review of the oil & gas tax regime aimed at making the UK Continent…
Diverting disaster
Added: 10 Jul 2014
In the wake of an industrial disaster, updating plant safety technology is often the first port of …

Drax CCS secures Euro funding
Added: 9 Jul 2014
Drax’s White Rose Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) project has received €300 million in funding from …
Pharma leads manufacturing fall
Added: 9 Jul 2014
UK manufacturing has suffered biggest fall in output since January 2013, with pharmaceuticals among…

Regulator to speed oil recovery
Added: 4 Jul 2014
The UK’s new regulatory body for the oil & gas industry will be given powers to speed up work on th…

Corrosion monitoring
Added: 4 Jul 2014
Up to 40% of internal pipeline corrosion is due to microbiological causes. Intertek’s John J. Kilba…

Improved carbon capture scrubbing
Added: 4 Jul 2014
The ADI 2045TI online analyser improves scrubbing process in carbon capture plants, Metrohm says.

Capita acquires process project manager
Added: 4 Jul 2014
Capita today announced it had acquired project management firm Projen, a specialist in process sect…
Remote control
Added: 3 Jul 2014
As technology costs come down and engineering skills get stretched, an increasing number of offshor…

Scottish shale amount ‘modest’
Added: 30 Jun 2014
Shale oil and gas resources beneath Scotland’s Midland Valley are modest, according to a British Ge…

Subsea research initiative launched
Added: 25 Jun 2014
A new UK initiative will focus of subsea research and development.

FTIR gas analyser
Added: 24 Jun 2014
The latest FTIR gas analyser from Quantitech is designed to support carbon capture research.