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Ineos sues Sinopec over carbon fibre secrets

Added: 21 Mar 2014

Chemical company Ineos is suing Chinese oil major Sinopec and subsidiaries for misuse of trade secr…

Chancellor George Osborne Budget

Budget: £7bn energy deal for industry

Added: 19 Mar 2014

Chancellor George Osborne today used his annual Budget to announce a package of measures to help en…

Mariner oil field

Slick oil

Added: 12 Mar 2014

UK oil & gas operators need smart approaches to technical challenges amid increasing pressures on c…

Food Greencore

Food fingerprinting to combat fraud

Added: 10 Mar 2014

The chemical fingerprinting of food samples will be key in the fight against food fraud, according …

Honeywell Experion PKS Orion

Honeywell tops automation sales

Added: 10 Mar 2014

Honeywell recorded the strongest global sales among automation suppliers to the process industries …

Drax Power Plant 2

Does industrial growth really matter?

Added: 5 Mar 2014

Over the past month or so we have heard a great deal from our political leaders about how passionat…

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ExxonMobil licenses InteliRed

Added: 5 Mar 2014

ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company has awarded the first commercial license for its InteliRed rem…

Ineos Grangemouth

Fracking fallout

Added: 4 Mar 2014

The future for Europe’s refineries and petrochemicals plants looks bleak thanks to the US shale gas…

Shale fracking

Shale sparks US chemicals boom

Added: 26 Feb 2014

Potential chemicals industry investment in new projects linked to shale gas extraction has passed $…

Peterhead CCGT plant, Aberdeenshire

Shell signs North Sea CCS deal

Added: 24 Feb 2014

The UK government has today announced a deal with Shell to develop the world’s first gas carbon cap…

BP chemicals plant facility

Efficiency evangelists needed to fight cuts

Added: 18 Feb 2014

A combination of government funding cuts to support for energy efficiency measures and waning inter…

MT Energie AD plant

Biogas to grid plant build starts

Added: 18 Feb 2014

Work has begun on Scotland’s first gas to grid anaerobic digestion (AD) project after its financing…

Statoil Snøhvit LNG

Foster Wheeler wins LNG upgrade

Added: 18 Feb 2014

Foster Wheeler yesterday announced it had won a contract to upgrade a Norwegian liquefied natural g…

Sir William Wakeham

Systems must drive engineering degrees

Added: 18 Feb 2014

Former IChemE president Sir William Wakeham calls for the process systems community to take a great…

Shale gas

UK faces fracking skills shortage

Added: 17 Feb 2014

The UK fracking industry could be marred by a lack of relevant skills and equipment, according to a…

Amec chief executive Samir Brikho

Amec to buy Foster Wheeler for £2bn

Added: 13 Feb 2014

Amec today made a formal offer to acquire rival oilfield services firm Foster Wheeler for $3.3 bill…

Alder topsides project

ConocoPhillips in North Sea pumps deal

Added: 13 Feb 2014

Centrifugal pump manufacturer Amarinth has secured a £600,000 order from ConocoPhillips to supply h…

Cutting the cord

Interlink establishes UK base

Added: 12 Feb 2014

US human machine interface (HMI) and sensor technology firm Interlink Electronics has announced it …

Cuadrilla shale site

Cuadrilla targets Blackpool shale sites

Added: 4 Feb 2014

Shale oil & gas developer Cuadrilla today announced plans for exploration at two new sites near Bla…

Vince Cable

“Reshore UK” scheme launched

Added: 31 Jan 2014

The Government has launched a new “one-stop-shop” service to help manufacturing firms return produc…