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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 …

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…

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…

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…

Cyber attack hits Saudi Aramco
Added: 20 Aug 2012
Riyadh - Saudi Aramco has come under a cyber attack, which caused a sudden disruption to parts of o…

US shale sector steps off the gas
Added: 17 Aug 2012
London - A combination of lower North American natural gas prices and relatively high oil prices pr…

Atlas Copco kit for Australia LNG field
Added: 17 Aug 2012
London – Atlas Copco has won an order for turbocompressors to be installed at an onshore LNG facili…

Ensus to restart biofuels facility
Added: 15 Aug 2012
London – Ensus is to restart its bioethanol plant on Teesside in late August, the company has annou…

Wood Group PSN to build CMMS for Shell Prelude
Added: 15 Aug 2012
London – Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has been awarded a $10 million (AUD) contract by Shell to build the…

Alcoa piping for Brunei Shell project
Added: 13 Aug 2012
SERIA, Brunei — Alcoa’s oil & gas business has deployed 1800 metres of aluminium alloy drill pipe (…

ABB launches hazardous-area wireless devices
Added: 8 Aug 2012
London – ABB has launched a wireless mesh router and wireless bridge for hazardous field automation…

Oil & gas cyber threat
Added: 8 Aug 2012
Livingston, UK – Information security breaches at businesses, government agencies and industrial co…

Amarinth adds Abu Dhabi pump orders
Added: 8 Aug 2012
Abu Dhabi, UAE – Amarinth has secured orders totalling $5.5 million from the National Petroleum Con…

Solid approach to oil pollution
Added: 8 Aug 2012
London - UK Power Networks, the UK’s largest public utility, is to trial a pollution prevention sys…

Major UK investments unveiled at Olympics summit
Added: 7 Aug 2012
London – Global oil & gas and petrochemicals companies are to announce plans for major investments …

Wanted - 350 senior engineers
Added: 6 Aug 2012
Middlesbrough, UK – Some 350 senior engineer vacancies were up for grabs at a recruitment event sup…

BP 'slipped and tripped' to Macondo disaster
Added: 31 Jul 2012
Houston, Texas – Prior to the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, BP, Transocean, tr…

Tax relief for UK gas fields
Added: 26 Jul 2012
London – Industry has welcomed the Chancellor’s announcement of a new tax relief to encourage more …

Sensing safety
Added: 25 Jul 2012
?Recent advances in the field of sensor technologies are proving timely for process operators in th…