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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…

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…
Slick oil
Added: 12 Mar 2014
UK oil & gas operators need smart approaches to technical challenges amid increasing pressures on c…

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 tops automation sales
Added: 10 Mar 2014
Honeywell recorded the strongest global sales among automation suppliers to the process industries …

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…

ExxonMobil licenses InteliRed
Added: 5 Mar 2014
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company has awarded the first commercial license for its InteliRed rem…

Fracking fallout
Added: 4 Mar 2014
The future for Europe’s refineries and petrochemicals plants looks bleak thanks to the US shale gas…

Shale sparks US chemicals boom
Added: 26 Feb 2014
Potential chemicals industry investment in new projects linked to shale gas extraction has passed $…

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…

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…

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…

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…
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…

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 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…

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…
Interlink establishes UK base
Added: 12 Feb 2014
US human machine interface (HMI) and sensor technology firm Interlink Electronics has announced it …

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…

“Reshore UK” scheme launched
Added: 31 Jan 2014
The Government has launched a new “one-stop-shop” service to help manufacturing firms return produc…