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Sea Change
Added: 22 Apr 2015
Plummeting oil prices have added further impetus to the Wood Review’s call for greater production e…
Amec FW wins nuclear decommissioning role
Added: 16 Apr 2015
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has awarded Amec Foster Wheeler a contract to provide d…
Manufacturing orders fall, says CBI
Added: 24 Mar 2015
Manufacturers’ order book levels have fallen this month, according to a survey by the CBI.
North Sea emergency simulated
Added: 24 Mar 2015
The emergency services and RAF were among those working with Oil & Gas industry representatives las…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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: 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…
Amec Areva team loses Sellafield role
Added: 13 Jan 2015
The government this morning confirmed that Nuclear Management Partners (NMP), a consortium of Amec …
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…
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…
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 …
Manufacturers’ confidence halves
Added: 5 Jan 2015
Confidence among British manufacturers has dropped to nearly half the level it was at the start of …
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 …
