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Shale fracking

Cuadrilla confirms Blackpool fracking plans

Added: 20 May 2014

Shale oil & gas developer Cuadrilla yesterday confirmed it intends to submit planning applications …

Ineos Grangemouth

Grangemouth shale imports win planning

Added: 15 May 2014

Ineos’ plans to build a storage tank for US shale gas imports at its Grangemouth petrochemicals fac…

EDF apprentice trainee skills2

Scale of gender pay gap revealed

Added: 14 May 2014

Women in engineering sectors typically earn 25% less than men by the age of 40, a new survey has fo…

Cuadrilla shale site

Speed up shale exploration, say Lords

Added: 8 May 2014

The government must do more to speed up a regulatory process for the exploratory drilling of shale …

Forty-nine per cent of industry representatives claim skills shortages are their main barrier to gro

Platform protection

Added: 7 May 2014

The UK oil & gas industry is ramping up its efforts to address the skill shortage and retain its hi…

George Osborne

Chancellor launches spending consultation

Added: 28 Apr 2014

Chancellor unveils plans to boost science, research and innovation expenditure in the UK.

Shale fracking

UK fracking spend could hit £33bn

Added: 24 Apr 2014

Development of shale gas in the UK may require £33 billion to be spent over the next 18 years and c…

Sir Ian Wood

Working together for a better future

Added: 15 Apr 2014

Following Sir Ian Wood’s report on the future of UK oil & gas, industry collaboration in the North …

Armed forces skills2

Skills boost for oil & gas industry

Added: 10 Apr 2014

A website designed to map the skills and competencies needed to work in the oil & gas industry is c…

Cyber security

Happily ever after?

Added: 8 Apr 2014

Today marks the end of support for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system - but what effect will i…

DNV handed Apache deal

DNV handed Apache deal

Added: 8 Apr 2014

North Sea exploration company awards verification services contract to oil and gas advisory firm.

North Sea offshore oil and gas

Oil & gas jobs to rise by 39,000

Added: 4 Apr 2014

The oil and gas sector could create up to 39,000 jobs in the UK over the next two years, according …

KKI subsea service

Subsea valves

Added: 2 Apr 2014

The Koso Kent Introl (KKI) subsea service includes project engineering, management, life of field s…

Pharmaceutical industry must focus on manufacturing

A dose of growth

Added: 2 Apr 2014

After decades of focussing on research & development in pursuit of the next blockbuster drug, big p…

Emerson wireless leak detection at BP Geel, Belgium

Emerson plans sensors acquisitions

Added: 2 Apr 2014

Emerson Process Management is targeting acquisitions of sensors manufacturers to increase its prese…

Exxon Valdez Cleanup

Accident costs top £20bn

Added: 2 Apr 2014

The combined financial loss from the 100 largest accidents in the global hydrocarbon industry has b…

Ineos Grangemouth

UK has “no choice” over shale gas

Added: 28 Mar 2014

The UK public must support shale oil and gas development if some of the country’s key industries ar…

R. Stahl EXICOM HMIs

Added: 28 Mar 2014

The European Offshore & Energy exhibition and conference brings together the upstream energy market…

Dominion Cove Point LNG

LNG & a new cold war?

Added: 25 Mar 2014

It looks increasingly likely that gas will not only replace nuclear as the topic of choice in the N…

Dominion Cove Point LNG

US approves sixth LNG terminal

Added: 25 Mar 2014

A sixth US liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal has gained conditional approval to export to countr…