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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

Lab

Resurrected process can convert sugar directly to diesel (Comment)

Added: 19 Nov 2012

Berkeley, California - A long-abandoned fermentation process, once used to turn starch into explosi…

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BP selects KBR services contract

Added: 16 Nov 2012

London – BP has selected KBR as its preferred engineering and project management services (EPMS) pr…

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Deepwater Horizon: BP reaches $4.5bn settlement with US

Added: 16 Nov 2012

London - BP is to pay fines of $4.5 billion and plead guilty to criminal charges in a deal with the…