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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…

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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 FPSO2

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…

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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…

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BP advances oil recovery technology

Added: 10 Sep 2012

Aberdeen, UK – BP is deploying a new technology that, it believes, could significantly increase the…

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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 Pearl GTL

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 …

Schaeffler rig bearings

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…

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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…

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Hydrogen monitoring improves Syngas efficiency

Added: 5 Sep 2012

London – Syngas (synthesis gas) is manufactured from feedstocks containing carbon, such as coal, he…

BP FPSO2

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…

Hima Salla UK refinery

Hima-Sella starts UK refinery upgrade

Added: 4 Sep 2012

Stockport, UK – Under a circa £1.75-million contract, Hima-Sella has commenced work on a site-wide …

Shtokman

Gazprom pulls out of Shtokman gas field

Added: 31 Aug 2012

Russia’s state-owned gas company, Gazprom, has pulled out of plans to develop the Shtokman gas fiel…

Blaze extinguished at Amuay refinery

Added: 28 Aug 2012

A fire that has blazed for three days at Venezuela’s largest oil refinery has been extinguished, ac…

Pluto LNG

Woodside places Pluto expansion on hold

Added: 28 Aug 2012

Woodside Petroleum, Australia’s largest oil and gas company, said it will shelve plans to expand th…

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Petrofac to raise skill levels in global drilling industry

Added: 21 Aug 2012

London – Petrofac has secured a contract with the International Association of Drilling Contractors…