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SMEs to help oil and gas sector to innovate
Added: 11 Oct 2012
London – Thirteen small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are to share UK government funding for f…

Fluor for deep-water gas-to-power project
Added: 11 Oct 2012
Irving, Texas – Fluor Corp has been awarded an EPC support contract for phase 3 of the Malampaya de…

BP to sell Texas City refinery for $2.5bn
Added: 9 Oct 2012
London - BP is to sell its Texas City refinery and part of its retail and logistics network in the …

Fluor for Shell's world-first oil sands CCS project
Added: 9 Oct 2012
Irving, Texas / Calgary, Alberta — Shell has selected Fluor Corp. as the EPC contractor for its car…

New SIL3 SAFESERIES safety relays from Weidmüller
Added: 2 Oct 2012
New SIL3 SAFESERIES safety relays from Weidmuller
With its new SAFESERIES safety relays, Weidmüller …

Eni to convert Venice refinery into bio-refinery
Added: 26 Sep 2012
Venice, Italy – Eni is investing Euro100 million to convert its Venice refinery to produce only bio…

Axflow delivers North Sea package
Added: 26 Sep 2012
Aberdeen, UK – AxFlow’s Aberdeen system manufacturing plant has supplied a diesel transfer pump pac…

BP taps Emerson for new FPSO project
Added: 21 Sep 2012
London – Emerson Process Management has been awarded a $21 million contract to provide integrated c…

Oil & gas industry event to mark Piper Alpha
Added: 20 Sep 2012
Aberdeen, UK – Oil & Gas UK is to hold a major offshore safety conference next summer, which will m…

Engineers urge MPs to back shale gas
Added: 18 Sep 2012
London – The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has urged the Government to back the deve…

Magnetically separating oil and water
Added: 12 Sep 2012
MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could…

Report: Oil refinery on Teesside – Comment added
Added: 11 Sep 2012
London – GE Oil & Gas is planning to build a new oil refinery on Teesside in the north east of Engl…

BP advances oil recovery technology
Added: 10 Sep 2012
Aberdeen, UK – BP is deploying a new technology that, it believes, could significantly increase the…

Oil & gas tax break to fuel brown field investment
Added: 10 Sep 2012
London - The UK government is to introduce a new tax relief to encourage investment in older oil an…

Aberdeen's global status under threat
Added: 10 Sep 2012
London - Aberdeen is in danger of losing it status as an international oil & gas hub if it does not…

Shell taps Foster Wheeler for Qatar MEG project
Added: 9 Sep 2012
Zug, Switzerland - Shell Global Solutions International BV has awarded Foster Wheeler the contract …

UK oil & gas workforce getting younger
Added: 7 Sep 2012
Aberdeen, UK – There has been an increase in the number of people working offshore in the UK oil an…

Step Change targets worksite safety
Added: 6 Sep 2012
Aberdeen, UK – Step Change in Safety, an organisation dedicated to improving safety in the UK oil a…

Hydrogen monitoring improves Syngas efficiency
Added: 5 Sep 2012
London – Syngas (synthesis gas) is manufactured from feedstocks containing carbon, such as coal, he…

Big tanks go for advanced level sensing
Added: 4 Sep 2012
London – ?Tank-fill level can be a relatively straightforward parameter to monitor, but level senso…