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Wireless communication

Wireless devices communicate without batteries

Added: 14 Aug 2013

Engineers from the University of Washington have designed a wireless communication system that allo…

David Cameron

Cameron fracking backing against public opinion

Added: 13 Aug 2013

Prime Minister David Cameron’s public backing of shale gas development goes largely against public …

Chemicals processing 1

Operators failing to maintain pipe networks

Added: 12 Aug 2013

Companies are at risk of being hit with unexpected bills if they fail to maintain their supporting …

AMEC Rob Brown

Chemical engineer to lead AMEC infrastructure team

Added: 12 Aug 2013

Project manager AMEC has appointed chemical engineer Rob Brown as managing director of its Environm…

ConocoPhillips oil sands, Canada

ConocoPhillips to sell Clyden oil sands

Added: 9 Aug 2013

The company yesterday announced it has agreed to sell the entirety of its Clyden oil sands leasehol…

Ormen Lange Subsea Future Compression Station - Statoil

Subsea processes driving oil & gas market

Added: 6 Aug 2013

Process automation technologies capable of operating on the seabed at ever-increasing depths will b…

Tracerco Discovery CT scanner image

Subsea firm wins R&D funding

Added: 5 Aug 2013

Subsea control and instrumentation specialist Tracerco today secured funding to help it build a new…

Invensys control room

Threat to Schneider's Invensys takeover

Added: 2 Aug 2013

Schneider’s proposed £3.4 billion takeover of Invensys is still under threat of being beaten by a b…

Centrica Storage - Rough

Yokogawa wins SSE gas storage upgrade

Added: 1 Aug 2013

Yokogawa has won a contract to supply an integrated control and safety system for SSE’s Hornsea gas…

Schneider CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire 2

Schneider acquires Invensys for £3.4bn

Added: 31 Jul 2013

UK-based Invensys today accepted an offer from France’s Schneider Electric to acquire the company f…

Centrica Storage - Rough

Centrica gas storage projects face axe

Added: 31 Jul 2013

Centrica today revealed that its two planned gas storage projects worth a combined £1.5 billion are…

Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser

Siemens names Kaeser as new CEO

Added: 31 Jul 2013

Siemens today replaced CEO Peter Loescher with the company’s chief financial officer Joe Kaeser.

BP Gulf oil spill fund dries up

BP Gulf oil spill fund dries up

Added: 30 Jul 2013

BP today announced it has just $300 million remaining in its $20 billion Gulf of Mexico compensatio…

Shale gas

Police arrest protesters at Cuadrilla site

Added: 26 Jul 2013

Oil test well protest highlights challenges facing UK shale developers and their suppliers.

Shell prelude FLNG3

Oil majors partner IChemE on safety

Added: 25 Jul 2013

Leading oil firms including Shell and ExxonMobil have signed up to become the first industry partne…

Argent Energy Biodiesel Plant

Biodiesel firm sold to conglomerate

Added: 24 Jul 2013

Scottish biodiesel producer Argent Energy was yesterday sold to a UK subsidiary of the global group…

Shale fracking

Lords question economics of shale

Added: 23 Jul 2013

The House of Lords has issued a call for evidence on the economic impact of shale gas development i…

Cuadrilla shale site

Let technology rule shale safety debate

Added: 19 Jul 2013

My first week as editor of Process Engineering has been dominated by events surrounding the UK’s pr…

George Osborne

UK offers 30% tax rate for shale gas

Added: 19 Jul 2013

Chancellor George Osborne announces “most generous tax regime in the world” for Shale developers.

Jim Marshall - Water UK

Water firms seek urgent shale gas talks

Added: 18 Jul 2013

Water companies in the UK yesterday called for urgent talks with shale gas developers to head off p…