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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…

Ministers urged to throw Coryton refinery a lifeline
Added: 18 Jun 2012
London – Trade union Unite has called on UK energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey and his mi…

BP taps Emerson for Clair Ridge project
Added: 14 Jun 2012
Dusseldorf, Germany – BP has awarded Emerson Process Management a $23-million contract to supply in…

Distillation control helps MOL cut energy costs by Euro1.2m a year
Added: 14 Jun 2012
Dusseldorf, Germany – Oil & gas major MOL Group has reduced energy costs at its gas distillation pl…

Rotork for UAE petroleum storage project
Added: 11 Jun 2012
Fujairah, UAE – Rotork electric and electro-hydraulic valve actuation and control technologies have…

World’s first X-ray machine capable of studying liquid surfaces
Added: 7 Jun 2012
A new liquid X-ray machine could significantly improve the performance catalysts

LyondellBasell nets award for energy-saving flare
Added: 1 Jun 2012
Houston, Texas –- LyondellBasell’s efforts to reduce energy consumption at its Houston refinery hav…

Petroplus refinery set to close as no buyer emerges
Added: 28 May 2012
London – The Petroplus Refining & Marketing Ltd (PRML) refinery operation in Coryton, UK looks set …

Emerson subsea instrumentation for Norway-UK tie-back
Added: 25 May 2012
London – Aker Solutions has awarded Emerson a multi-million dollar contact to deliver its Roxar sub…

Subsea 7 enhances incident-response capabilities
Added: 24 May 2012
London – Subsea 7 offers seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and support services to the of…

Valero to use Invensys HF monitoring technology
Added: 23 May 2012
London – Invensys Operations Management, has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Valero En…

Oxford Catalysts technology for Russian GTL plant
Added: 17 May 2012
Abingdon, UK – Microchannel Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reactor technology developed by the Oxford Catalys…

UK team advances measurement of gas bubbles in pipelines.
Added: 17 May 2012
Southampton, UK – Researchers at the University of Southampton has devised a new method to more acc…