All Oil & Gas
Green light for fracking
Added: 13 Dec 2012
London – Exploratory hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for shale gas can resume in the UK, subject to…
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
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
BP selects KBR services contract
Added: 16 Nov 2012
London – BP has selected KBR as its preferred engineering and project management services (EPMS) pr…
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…
