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ABB to automate major UK gas storage facility
Added: 18 May 2011
Cheshire, UK – ABB is to automate a major gas storage facility being built in Cheshire for Storengy…

Scotland highlights carbon capture jobs potential
Added: 18 May 2011
Edinburgh, Scotland – Over 5,000 people could be employed on the construction and operation of thre…

BP selling assets to Perenco
Added: 18 May 2011
London – BP is to sell its interests (see panel) in the Wytch Farm, Wareham, Beacon and Kimmeridge …

Oxford Catalysts for Brazil biofuels plant
Added: 18 May 2011
Oxford, UK – Oxford Catalysts Group’s microchannel reactor technology is now set to be deployed in…

Total, ExxonMobil in Polish shale gas deal
Added: 16 May 2011
Paris – Total has entered an agreement with ExxonMobil to farm into the Chelm and Werbkowice shale …

Wireless in at Shell Houdini
Added: 16 May 2011
Technology meets hazardous area requirements at Singapore petrochemicals facility

Oil & gas industry takes tax-hike case to Westminister
Added: 5 May 2011
London – Representatives from the industry trade association Oil & Gas UK have given evidence to th…

Tax hike will clobber UK oil & gas investment, production
Added: 3 May 2011
Aberdeen, UK - UK tax hikes announced in Budget 2011 will cause substantial long-term reductions in…

Imperial spinout's 'check and protect' coating for gas turbines
Added: 1 May 2011
London – Southside Thermal Sciences (STS), a spin-out from Imperial College London, has developed a…

Alfa Laval buoyed by oil & gas, process
Added: 27 Apr 2011
Stockholm – Higher demand from the oil & gas and process sectors helped Alfa Laval to a 27% order-i…

Shale gas fuels Dow expansion plans
Added: 27 Apr 2011
Midland, Michigan - Dow Chemical Co. plans to increase its ethylene and propylene production and to…

UK refineries under new ownership
Added: 15 Apr 2011
London – Asian-based companies are snapping up refining operations in the UK and other western coun…

Statoil taps Foster Wheeler for Arctic LNG work
Added: 14 Apr 2011
Reading, UK – Statoil Petroleum AS has awarded Foster Wheeler a pre-FEED contract for the Snøhvit F…

Australia LNG contract for ABB
Added: 13 Apr 2011
London – ABB has won a $58 million order from QGC Pty Ltd, part of the BG Group, to provide integra…

Veolia begins North Sea decommissioning project
Added: 5 Apr 2011
Tyneside, UK – Veolia Environmental Services (UK) has started work on a project to decommission off…

Aberdeen-based EFC wins deals with Transocean, NDC
Added: 4 Apr 2011
Aberdeen, UK – EFC Group has announced a recent contract win with Transocean for its choke & well c…

Spotlight on UK shale gas
Added: 1 Apr 2011
Shale gas has rapidly emerged as a major component of the US energy mix. What is the outlook for a …

UK Budget: Oil & gas showdown for UK chancellor
Added: 31 Mar 2011
London – Industry group Oil & Gas UK is to meet UK chancellor George Osborne in a bid to limit the …

Power from small amounts of waste process gas
Added: 31 Mar 2011
Amberg, Germany – Generating energy from process gasses that currently escape into the atmosphere i…

BP Oil awards storage terminals contract to AMEC
Added: 31 Mar 2011
London – BP Oil UK Ltd has appointed AMEC to carry out the engineering, procurement and constructio…