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Schneider acquires Invensys for £3.4bn
Added: 31 Jul 2013
UK-based Invensys today accepted an offer from France’s Schneider Electric to acquire the company f…
Biomass firms face subsidy fight
Added: 31 Jul 2013
Developers of new biomass projects across England and Wales are bracing themselves for a race to se…
Centrica gas storage projects face axe
Added: 31 Jul 2013
Centrica today revealed that its two planned gas storage projects worth a combined £1.5 billion are…
Siemens names Kaeser as new CEO
Added: 31 Jul 2013
Siemens today replaced CEO Peter Loescher with the company’s chief financial officer Joe Kaeser.
Drax biomass running at half capacity
Added: 30 Jul 2013
A lack of storage facilities has forced the first of Drax’s converted biomass units to run with an …
BP Gulf oil spill fund dries up
Added: 30 Jul 2013
BP today announced it has just $300 million remaining in its $20 billion Gulf of Mexico compensatio…
Thames supertunnel contracts launched
Added: 29 Jul 2013
Thames Water today published a contract notice for up to £2.3 billion of tunnelling works to build …
Police arrest protesters at Cuadrilla site
Added: 26 Jul 2013
Oil test well protest highlights challenges facing UK shale developers and their suppliers.
Lords probe waste and the bioeconomy
Added: 26 Jul 2013
The House of Lords’ Science and Technology Committee yesterday launched an inquiry into waste and t…
Oil majors partner IChemE on safety
Added: 25 Jul 2013
Leading oil firms including Shell and ExxonMobil have signed up to become the first industry partne…
DuPont may sell performance chemicals arm
Added: 25 Jul 2013
US giant DuPont yesterday announced it was consider the sale or spinning-off of all or part of its …
Reaction cuts chemical production costs
Added: 25 Jul 2013
Experts at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) believe they have discovered an organic reaction…
100MW biomass project approved
Added: 24 Jul 2013
The £250m development of a biomass power plant in the North East of England was approved by governm…
First rise for manufacturing orders in a year
Added: 24 Jul 2013
New orders in the UK’s manufacturing sector rose in the three months to July for the first time in …
Ofwat appoints new chief executive
Added: 24 Jul 2013
UK water regulator Ofwat today announced the appointment of Cathryn Ross as its next chief executiv…
Biodiesel firm sold to conglomerate
Added: 24 Jul 2013
Scottish biodiesel producer Argent Energy was yesterday sold to a UK subsidiary of the global group…
Lords question economics of shale
Added: 23 Jul 2013
The House of Lords has issued a call for evidence on the economic impact of shale gas development i…
Vattenfall wipes £3bn off power plant values
Added: 23 Jul 2013
Swedish utility Vattenfall today announced it was writing SEK 29.7 billion (£2.98 bn) off the value…
Distillery secures biomass funding
Added: 23 Jul 2013
Installation of a biomass boiler funded at a whisky distillery south of Inverness has become the fi…
UK offers 30% tax rate for shale gas
Added: 19 Jul 2013
Chancellor George Osborne announces “most generous tax regime in the world” for Shale developers.
