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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…

Analysis of petroleum soil contamination
Added: 24 Jul 2012
A new hand-held device for rapid on-site analysis of petroleum soil contamination could facilitate …

Antonov flies compressor units to Kazakhstan
Added: 24 Jul 2012
Hemel Hempstead, UK - Atlas Copco Compressors has delivered a £6-million package comprising instrum…

Bridging the divide
Added: 23 Jul 2012
The UK process industries need to resolve long-standing differences between academics and businesse…

Eni board's Petronas' RAPID complex
Added: 20 Jul 2012
Pengerang, Malaysia - Petronas has signed a heads of agreement with Italy-based Versalis SpA, part …

Thermal imaging for hazardous environments
Added: 19 Jul 2012
?Thermal imaging offers clear advantages in ATEX-rated and other hazardous environments, but the la…

Penspen to enhance integrity and reliability at PEMEX
Added: 18 Jul 2012
London – Oil and gas engineering group Penspen has signed a $1.2 million contract to develop high l…

Don Valley first in line for CCS funding
Added: 16 Jul 2012
Brussels – The EC has placed the 650MW Don Valley project at Stainforth in South Yorkshire at the t…

Operating procedure key to process safety
Added: 16 Jul 2012
Article based on Honeywell white paper. Contributors: Subhankar Dey - Senior Marketing Specialist, …

Selecting rolling bearings for drill rig plant and machinery
Added: 16 Jul 2012
Drill rig operators must select bearings that maximise machine availability and prevent unplanned d…

Extinguishing fire using sound
Added: 16 Jul 2012
DARPA has demonstrated techniques to extinguish small flames using electric and acoustic suppression

Teesside gas processing project to cost more
Added: 16 Jul 2012
Calgary, Alberta – Sterling Resources Ltd has increased the expected cost for phase 1 of the Breagh…

Flow meter research to benefit process industries
Added: 13 Jul 2012
A new type of flow meter could facilitate the measurement of multiple velocities in a pipeline

BP settles Texas City refinery citations
Added: 13 Jul 2012
London – BP Products North America Inc. has reached an agreement with the US Occupational Safety an…

New Saudi Aramco venture to target energy technologies
Added: 12 Jul 2012
Dhahran Saudi Arabia – Saudi Aramco has launched of a new corporate venturing subsidiary Saudi Aram…

Oil & gas tax move could free up investment billions
Added: 10 Jul 2012
London – The UK government has published a consultation aimed at giving oil and gas companies more …

Sold Coryton refinery to be turned into a fuel terminal
Added: 3 Jul 2012
London – The Petroplus Coryton refinery site in Essex will be turned into a fuel storage facility a…