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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…

Applus RTD

Detection tool in the pipeline

Added: 3 Dec 2014

Applus RTD, a global provider of integrity technology services, last month showcased its new RTD DT…

Control room

£2.5m to combat cyber threats

Added: 19 Nov 2014

A new research project focusing on the cyber-security of the UK’s vital national infrastructure has…

Aveva Everything3D plant design

Turkish delight for Aveva

Added: 11 Nov 2014

Turkey’s largest multidisciplinary Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor Tekfe…

Murco Milford Haven refinery

Milford Haven refinery to close

Added: 6 Nov 2014

Murphy Oil (Murco) yesterday announced that a deal to save its Milford Haven refinery had collapsed…

EDF Fenice Energy Management Audit

Danone and EDF sign efficiency deal

Added: 5 Nov 2014

Food and drink giant the Danone Group has signed a deal with EDF to improve the energy efficiency o…

Emerson maintenance reliability management consulting

Emerson enters management consulting

Added: 3 Nov 2014

Emerson Process Management has launched a maintenance-focussed management consulting service to dev…

Didcot B power station

Didcot back to 75% capacity after fire

Added: 29 Oct 2014

The Didcot B power station unit damaged by fire last week has returned to partial operation, plant …

Peterhad CCGT plant, Aberdeenshire FULL

Spare grid capacity down to 4%

Added: 29 Oct 2014

National Grid yesterday warned that the UK’s spare electricity generating capacity this winter will…

National Grid

The big turnoff

Added: 22 Oct 2014

Energy management has officially come of age.

Didcot B power station

Fire halves Didcot capacity

Added: 20 Oct 2014

The 1.4GW Didcot B power station will run at half its generating capacity for the foreseeable futur…

Maintaining equipment

Forecasting failure

Added: 13 Oct 2014

Process companies are waking up to the fact they can no longer afford a reactive approach to mainte…

EDF Sizewell B nuclear power station

Sizewell B in maintenance shutdown

Added: 13 Oct 2014

EDF’s Sizewell B nuclear power station was yesterday shut down for a £60 million maintenance and re…

Dye

Dyeing to save energy

Added: 8 Oct 2014

Huge energy bills from the production and dyeing processes of one Nottingham materials manufacturer…

National Grid

Tata Steel among Grid shutdown firms

Added: 24 Sep 2014

Tata Steel was yesterday confirmed as one of the hundreds of industrial firms to have signed up to …

Mobile water treatment Aquamove

Cool customer

Added: 17 Sep 2014

Mobile water treatment keeps chemical production rolling.

Control room

Service in the sky

Added: 17 Sep 2014

Does the future of the computerised maintenance management system reside in the Cloud?

Energy saving

National Grid awards “shutdown” contracts

Added: 11 Sep 2014

National Grid is in the process of awarding contracts to major energy users such as process facilit…