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Level control is the 'most gruelling offshore application'

Added: 19 Sep 2011

London — Level control has been identified as by far the most challenging offshore valve applicatio…

DuPont wins $920m aramid secrets lawsuit against Kolon Industries

Added: 15 Sep 2011

Wilmington, Delaware — DuPont has won a civil lawsuit for $919.9 million in the US against Kolon In…

Ensus sits out biofuel woes

Added: 13 Sep 2011

Competition for US imports and continuing uncertainty over regulatory support mechanisms have promp…

Fiddlers Ferry contractor PJD earns international safety recognition

Added: 13 Sep 2011

Castle Donington, UK – UK mechanical engineering contractors PJD Group has been shortlisted as one …

British Gas, Bio Group in waste-to-gas project

Added: 13 Sep 2011

London — British Gas and Bio Group are to jointly establish a facility to convert commercial food w…

Industry's "first" condition monitoring iPhone app

Added: 13 Sep 2011

Dewsbury, UK —Parker Filtration, part of Parker Hannifin claims to have released the industry’s fir…

Oxford Catalysts earns US technology award

Added: 13 Sep 2011

Oxford, UK — Microchannel technology developed by the Oxford Catalysts Group was named as the winne…

Real-time process optimisation market looking stronger

Added: 13 Sep 2011

Dedham, Massachusetts - Demand for real-time process optimisation and training (RPO) market is to g…

Swedish mill adds new analyser technology

Added: 13 Sep 2011

Mörrum, Sweden – Södra Cell’s Mörrum mill in southern Sweden is currently installing a new Metso Ka…

INEOS ramps up technology licensing in China

Added: 9 Sep 2011

London – INEOS Technologies has licensed its Innovene PP process for the manufacture of polypropyle…

United Utilities plant turning human waste into usable energy

Added: 7 Sep 2011

Blackburn, UK – United Utilities is converting a by-product of wastewater treatment at the giant Bl…

BP inks £700m North Sea development

Added: 6 Sep 2011

London – BP is to invest up to £700 million to progress a project to develop the Kinnoull reservoir…

Sludge treatment 'first' in Scotland

Added: 6 Sep 2011

Hamilton, UK – The first Scottish installation of Zickert sludge treatment technology from Hydro In…

New UK refinery?

Added: 1 Sep 2011

GE Oil & Gas is planning to build a new oil refinery on Teesside in the north east of England, acco…

Invensys control system for Saudi refinery

Added: 16 Aug 2011

London – Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Co. (SATORP) — a JV between Saudi Aramco and T…

US majors target Israeli wastewater-to-electricity technology

Added: 15 Aug 2011

Caesarea, Israel – Energy Technology Ventures – a joint venture between GE, NRG Energy and ConocoPh…

Renewable ethanol for fuel additives, rubber and solvents

Added: 3 Aug 2011

Richland, Washington – US researchers claim to have developed catalysts that could replace chemical…

BASF moves polyacrylamide production to UK plant

Added: 1 Aug 2011

Ludwigshafen, Germany – BASF is to consolidate the production of polyacrylamide (PAM) beads into it…

Bayer advances energy-saving chlorine production technology

Added: 29 Jul 2011

Leverkusen, Germany – Bayer MaterialScience has started up a 20ktpa demonstration plant for the pro…

RWE power plants near startup

Added: 29 Jul 2011

Essen, Germany – RWE has announced that two new Essent power plants that are currently under constr…