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US Macondo investigators on UK fact-finding mission

Added: 26 Apr 2012

Aberdeen, UK – Investigators from the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) have …

New safety training standard for oil & gas industry

Added: 18 Apr 2012

London – A new oil and gas industry training standard, designed to improve safety at offshore works…

INEOS boss: Process safety is everyone's business

Added: 17 Apr 2012

London – Process safety management (PSM) is “the make-or-break issue” for the process industries. a…

Lakeside Elga Process

Lakeside energy-from-waste plant hires and 'fires'

Added: 16 Apr 2012

Slough, UK - Lakeside EFW has employed a mobile water treatment service to reduce maintenance downt…

Chemicals processing

BASF signs up Fluor as global engineering partner

Added: 6 Apr 2012

Houston, Texas – BASF has selected Fluor Corp. as its engineering partner for chemicals capital pro…

Keep a thermal imaging device in your maintenance toolkit.

Added: 5 Apr 2012

Manchester, UK – A thermal imaging device is an invaluable addition to any maintenance toolkit, acc…

HSE boss confronts sector over safety progress

Added: 3 Apr 2012

Only 65 out of 1000 high-risk sites signed up to safety management initiative

Glanbia cheese plant

Glanbia improves safety of cleaning procedures at NI cheese plant

Added: 2 Apr 2012

Magheralin, UK – Glanbia Cheese has changed the isolation and lockout tagout procedures at its mozz…

Sappi taps ABB maintenance service

ABB nets service contract at Sappi paper mill

Added: 27 Mar 2012

London – Sapppi has awarded ABB a five-year ‘maintenance improvement agreement’ to manage and impro…

Stop-start water cycle blocks technology flow

Added: 8 Mar 2012

London – ?After a slow start to the current Asset Management Plan - AMP5 (2010-15) - suppliers have…

EU proposals ‘threaten’ North?Sea safety

Added: 8 Mar 2012

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London – ?European Commission proposals for offshore safety regulation are likely to damage, rather…

Contracts & Projects Tracker: February 2012

Added: 5 Mar 2012

Virtalis has designed and installed two virtual reality systems for the new Nuclear AMRC, which was…

Lubricant saves energy at German plastics plant

Added: 24 Feb 2012

Brussels – Ostendorf, one of Germany’s largest producers of plastics pipes and shaped products, has…

Cousins IM 2

Data management key to oil & gas safety (Comment added)

Added: 21 Feb 2012

Aberdeen, UK – In the event of an offshore gas leak, or similar disaster, where internal emergency …

Biofuel

Ensus still hopeful of reopening Wilton biofuels plant

Added: 14 Feb 2012

London – Ensus has dismissed reports that it is about to permanently close its biofuels plant at Wi…

Foster Wheeler for UK carbon capture project

Added: 31 Jan 2012

Zug, Switzerland – Foster Wheeler has been awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) contract …

Pigments

Rockwood Pigments moves to paper-free maintenance

Added: 31 Jan 2012


Rockwood Pigments’ manufacturing site at Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent, is on its way to saying goodbye…

BOC joins Alstom, Drax on flagship CCS project

Added: 24 Jan 2012

London – Industrial gases provider BOC is joining Alstom and Drax as a co-developer on the 426 MW o…

Petroplus files for backruptcy

Added: 24 Jan 2012

Zug, Switzerland – Europe’s largest independent oil refiner Petroplus Holdings AG is to file for in…

GAMBICA details 'Automated Britain' event

Added: 24 Jan 2012

London – GAMBICA and Intellect have issued more detail about their jointly organised conference eve…