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BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010

North Sea emergency simulated

Added: 24 Mar 2015

The emergency services and RAF were among those working with Oil & Gas industry representatives las…

LED lighting

Industry wasting £1.4bn on lighting

Added: 24 Mar 2015

An estimated 75% of UK industrial lighting installations don’t meet current industry design standar…

Buncefield fire

Safety: a ticking timebomb

Added: 11 Mar 2015

Later this year the process industry will mark an anniversary it would prefer to forget: 10 years s…

Buncefield2

Process safety: barely begun

Added: 11 Mar 2015

Ten years on from the Buncefield explosion, only small steps have been taken to establish a process…

Judith Hackitt

Don’t dismiss process safety

Added: 11 Mar 2015

Hundreds of safety incidents still occur every year in the process industries, showing that old les…

Bionic handling assistant

Manufacturers voice ‘Industry 4.0’ concern

Added: 23 Feb 2015

Manufacturing trade body EEF has published research which suggests that 80% of manufacturers in the…

Agility on mobile

Maintenance on the move

Added: 18 Feb 2015

How are the current crop of maintenance management systems keeping up with the push for increased m…

European Automation Jonathan Wilkins

Why motors break down

Added: 11 Feb 2015

There are many reasons why electric motors fail, but some are much more common than others, says Eu…

Dungeness B nuclear power station

Dungeness nuclear plant life to be extended

Added: 20 Jan 2015

EDF Energy today announced plans to extend the operational life of Dungeness B nuclear power plant …

Sellafield nuclear facility

Sellafield: too big to be private

Added: 14 Jan 2015

Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey made a startling admission yesterday as he informed pa…

Pilz safety relays receive nuclear approval

Amec Areva team loses Sellafield role

Added: 13 Jan 2015

The government this morning confirmed that Nuclear Management Partners (NMP), a consortium of Amec …

North Sea offshore oil and gas

UK oil production stabilises

Added: 12 Jan 2015

After several years of steep decline, UK oil & gas production has stabilised and is expected to gro…

Murphy Oil Milford Haven refinery

Refined Capacity: the future of UK refineries

Added: 7 Jan 2015

The end of 2014 saw yet another UK refinery close as the European downstream sector struggled to co…

AVT Reliability Davina Reilly

Safe hands

Added: 7 Jan 2015

Replacing run-to-fail strategies with condition-based maintenance is an investment in health and sa…

Food production must cut water use by a fifth

Added: 6 Jan 2015

The use of water in food production must be cut by 20% globally to avoid rocketing food prices and …

Nestle apprenctice at work Jordan Phillips

Manufacturers’ confidence halves

Added: 5 Jan 2015

Confidence among British manufacturers has dropped to nearly half the level it was at the start of …

Murphy Oil Milford Haven refinery

The next Milford Haven?

Added: 17 Dec 2014

Oil prices may be tumbling, Russia may be brought to its knees, but for Europe’s refineries little …

Aveva Net 5

Information management upgrade

Added: 15 Dec 2014

Aveva has today announced a number of improvements to AVEVA NET, its information management softwar…

National Grid

Grid encourages more plant shutdowns

Added: 15 Dec 2014

National Grid is encouraging more energy-intensive businesses to reduce their demand when electrici…

PSM Summit

Safety management summit

Added: 9 Dec 2014

The Process Safety Management (PSM) Summit is the UK’s largest gathering of practitioners and execu…