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New control valves for European gas pipeline

Added: 18 Dec 2012

Bath, UK – Ukrainian energy company Ukrgaz Energo is employing advanced valve actuators as part of …

Landia AD Ireland

Fracking opens up industry divide

Added: 16 Dec 2012

London - The UK government’s decision to allow the resumption of shale gas exploration in the UK ha…

Emerson flowmeter Austria custody pipeline2

Flowmeter upgrade for Austrian crude-oil pipeline

Added: 16 Dec 2012

Vienna – Adria-Wien Pipeline GmbH (AWP) has upgraded custody-transfer measurement on the Adria-Wien…

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Green light for fracking

Added: 13 Dec 2012

London – Exploratory hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for shale gas can resume in the UK, subject to…

BP rig oil2

Tax break to boost oil & gas investment

Added: 12 Dec 2012

London – The UK government has published details of a contract oil and gas licensees aimed at provi…

Membrane distillation to cut costs in oil industry

Added: 12 Dec 2012

The Masdar Institute claims membrane distillation technology could save oil companies up to $50bn

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Middle East projects keep engineers in demand

Added: 12 Dec 2012

Overseas projects are continuing to generate strong demand for the experience and expertise offered…

George Osborne

Osborne unveils Britain's gas strategy

Added: 5 Dec 2012

The Chancellor has announced the creation of a Government gas office alongside possible tax incenti…

Amarinth monitor2

Monitoring system improves safety of ZADCO's pumps

Added: 30 Nov 2012

London –  Oil & gas major ZADCO has installed a bearing flush monitoring system for API 610 VS4 pum…

Invensys2

Invensys to 'focus more' on process automation

Added: 30 Nov 2012

London – Invensys will invest more heavily in its industrial software, systems and control equipmen…

BP Macondo2

BP still on the back foot over Deepwater Horizon

Added: 29 Nov 2012

London - Announcing its recent £4,5-billion settlement with US authorities, BP noted that companies…

Spirax flowmeter2

New flowmeter can be installed ‘hot’ into live pipework

Added: 29 Nov 2012

Spirax Sarco has launched a rotor insertion flowmeter for steam, gas and liquids, which is designed…

PSM is deemed by the HSE to be a ‘hot topic’ for high-hazard sites

Yokogawa rejigs SIS for heat, other vendors' control systems

Added: 28 Nov 2012

London – Emergency plant shutdown, fire prevention and firefighting in the oil, natural gas, petroc…

Schaeffler rig bearings

Aerial inspection 'saves £5m' on N Sea platform

Added: 26 Nov 2012

Aberdeen, UK – The first offshore inspection in the North Sea to have been carried out using a remo…

Engineers listening for pipeline leaks via phone line

Added: 26 Nov 2012

Farnborough, UK - Pipeline and maintenance engineers are at the forefront of a battle to prevent oi…

Eni chemicals plant

Eni taps Honeywell for pioneering Venice project

Added: 23 Nov 2012

Venice, Italy – Eni will employ the Honeywell UOP/Eni Ecofining process for its innovative project …

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BP appoints new upstream leader

Added: 23 Nov 2012

London – BP has appointed Lamar McKay, currently chairman and president of BP America, as chief exe…

CCS

Carbon capture innovators to give UK the edge

Added: 22 Nov 2012

London – The UK government has announced 13 winning projects in a £20-million competition intended …

Monsal AD tech

Prince Charles in biogas-to-grid first

Added: 22 Nov 2012

Poundbury, UK – The Prince of Wales will today open the country’s first full-scale anaerobic digest…

Biofuel

Choosing steels for the biofuels industry

Added: 20 Nov 2012

Stainless steel is a material of choice for many applications in bioethanol, biodiesel and biogas p…