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BP increasing graduate recruitment by 50%
Added: 2 Feb 2012
London – BP is increasing its annual UK graduate recruitment by 50%, to nearly 250 graduates, in 20…

Total to expand Korean petchem complex
Added: 27 Jan 2012
Paris – Total is to expand and upgrade the Daesan petrochemicals complex in South Korea, which it o…

3D software helps Aberdeen start-up
Added: 26 Jan 2012
Aberdeen, UK – When Aberdeen-based Liberty Drilling Equipment (LDE) was founded in October 2010, it…

System integrators in demand in India
Added: 25 Jan 2012
London – Manufacturing companies in India are increasingly turning to system integrators to impleme…

Petroplus files for backruptcy
Added: 24 Jan 2012
Zug, Switzerland – Europe’s largest independent oil refiner Petroplus Holdings AG is to file for in…

GAMBICA details 'Automated Britain' event
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – GAMBICA and Intellect have issued more detail about their jointly organised conference eve…

Yokogawa for Arrow LNG project
Added: 23 Jan 2012
Tokyo – Yokogawa Electric Corp.. has been awarded a contract by CJV – a JV between Chiyoda Corp. as…

Three big issues in 2012
Added: 23 Jan 2012
London – In the run-up to the recent holiday period I got to quiz a good number of UK engineers, fr…

UK fracking company adds leak monitoring equipment
Added: 20 Jan 2012
Cambridge, UK – Cuadrilla Resources of Lichfield, UK, recently announced the presence of significan…

Petrobras approves "world's first" modular small scale GTL facility
Added: 20 Jan 2012
London – Petrobras has qualified and approved CompactGTL’s modular gas-to-liquid (GTL) technology f…

Statoil targets four oil & gas production technologies
Added: 18 Jan 2012
Oslo – Statoil has identified four technologies as critical to its strategy to increase production …

Oil & gas employers 'should look to recruit from other industries'
Added: 11 Jan 2012
London – Companies in the oil & gas industry will have to take on many extra staff in 2012 to meet …

Shale holds much promise for equipment makers
Added: 1 Jan 2012
The continuing expansion of shale gas production in the US and its likely spread to other locations…

BP taps Foster Wheeler to debottleneck Scottish terminal
Added: 22 Dec 2011
Reading, UK – BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd has awarded Foster Wheeler an engineering, procureme…

Statoil contract to develop real-time environmental monitoring system
Added: 16 Dec 2011
Oslo – Statoil has awarded Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies a contract, worth NOK150 million over t…

Turkish refinery opts for Emerson wireless technology
Added: 9 Dec 2011
Izmir, Turkey – Turkey’s state-owned Tüpra? refinery in Izmir, has placed an order with Emerson Pro…

Petrobras taps Topsoe for refinery plant
Added: 30 Nov 2011
London – Topsoe has signed an agreement with Petrobras for the supply of critical equipment and mat…

Oil & gas group urges competency ahead of compliance
Added: 29 Nov 2011
London – The oil and gas companies must focus more on competence, rather than compliance, if they a…

CFD: Separating the oil & gas streams
Added: 24 Nov 2011
Separators are used throughout the oil and gas industry to split production fluids into components …

Weir Group ups US shale gas position with $675m buy
Added: 24 Nov 2011
London – Weir Group PLC is to acquire Seaboard Holdings Inc, a Houston, Texas,-based supplier of we…