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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…

Klinger UK nets Energy Industry Award
Added: 2 Jul 2012
Leeds, UK – Klinger UK, a developer, manufacturer and distributor of sealing products for the globa…

Kawasaki Heavy Industries invests in CompactGTL
Added: 28 Jun 2012
London – Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has taken a minority shareholding (2.2%) in CompactGTL –a …

Hoegh taps KBR for two major projects
Added: 27 Jun 2012
Hpuston, Texas – Hoegh has selected KBR as its preferred engineer to execute pre-FEED studies for …

BP selects Emerson as preferred N Sea automation supplier
Added: 27 Jun 2012
London – BP Exploration has selected Emerson Process Management as its preferred automation contrac…

ExxonMobil to 'reconfigure' UK refinery
Added: 25 Jun 2012
Fawley, UK – ExxonMobil is to implement a reconfiguration of the facilities at its Fawley refinery …

Rosneft, ExxonMobil target new reserves in Russia
Added: 25 Jun 2012
Tuapse, Russia— Rosneft and ExxonMobil are to jointly develop tight oil reserves in Western Siberia…

Jacobs nets contract for Saudi polyetheylene trains
Added: 24 Jun 2012
London – Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and constructio…

Linde targets air oxidation processes
Added: 23 Jun 2012
Frankfurt, Germany – Air oxidation is used in many processes in the petrochemical and basic chemica…

A tale of two refineries
Added: 20 Jun 2012
About three years ago the collapse in petroleum product demand in France, Europe and the US, prompt…