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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…

Saudi Electric orders 670 Emerson control valves
Added: 23 Nov 2011
Austin, Texas – Emerson Process Management has received a $10m order to supply 670 Fisher control v…

SABIC safeguards UK pipeline
Added: 17 Nov 2011
London – Hima-Sella has completed delivery on safety systems for all 20 valve stations along the le…

Shell, SSE agree carbon capture and storage project
Added: 11 Nov 2011
London – SSE plc and Shell UK Ltd have agreed to jointly develop a proposed carbon capture and stor…

KSB valves for liquefied gas tankers
Added: 11 Nov 2011
Frankenthal, Germany – KSB is to deliver cryogenic butterfly valves for 20 liquefied gas tankers by…

Digester mixing system advances biogas production at Heinz Bakenhus
Added: 11 Nov 2011
Grossenkneten, Germany – Landia’s digester mixing system, which combines sludge recirculation with …

Shell advances intelligent valve technology at Singapore site
Added: 9 Nov 2011
London – Shell’s largest petrochemicals investment to date, the Houdini project in Singapore, feat…

BP engineer heads Oil & Gas UK awards list
Added: 7 Nov 2011
Aberdeen, UK – In the recent Oil & Gas UK Awards 2011, Ann Davies, a well intervention engineer (su…

Amarinth pumps winterised for Sakhalin Island
Added: 3 Nov 2011
Amarinth has won an order for $850,000 for eight pumps to be used in the harsh and demanding condit…