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Tata Steel to axe 900 jobs, restart blast furnace
Added: 23 Nov 2012
London - Tata Steel is to cut 900 jobs under a major restructure of its UK operations. The proposed…

Eni taps Honeywell for pioneering Venice project
Added: 23 Nov 2012
Venice, Italy – Eni will employ the Honeywell UOP/Eni Ecofining process for its innovative project …

BP appoints new upstream leader
Added: 23 Nov 2012
London – BP has appointed Lamar McKay, currently chairman and president of BP America, as chief exe…

Virtual look to Rockwell automation release
Added: 23 Nov 2012
London - Current demands on operators to improve productivity and safety, and on engineers to strea…

Carbon capture innovators to give UK the edge
Added: 22 Nov 2012
London – The UK government has announced 13 winning projects in a £20-million competition intended …

Prince Charles in biogas-to-grid first
Added: 22 Nov 2012
Poundbury, UK – The Prince of Wales will today open the country’s first full-scale anaerobic digest…

Improved detection of hazardous chemicals
Added: 21 Nov 2012
Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a system to quickly detect trace amounts of ch…

Centre to help deal with nuclear waste
Added: 20 Nov 2012
A £1.2m centre to research the decontamination and safe storage of nuclear waste is being establish…

Employers offered £150m for 'DIY' skills schemes
Added: 20 Nov 2012
London – The UK government has put up £150 million to help businesses to create their own training …

Concern over EU carbon capture fund
Added: 19 Nov 2012
London - Only one carbon capture & storage (CCS) project is likely receive EU funding under the fir…

Ohio researchers develop hybrid CO2 capture membrane
Added: 19 Nov 2012
Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a new hybrid membrane that combines the separat…

Energy minister puts the heat on
Added: 19 Nov 2012
London – Measures to reduce the UK heat-related energy requirements and the emissions generated wer…

Looking good in chemical protective clothes market
Added: 19 Nov 2012
London – The market for chemical protective clothing is set for robust growth over the next few yea…

Deepwater Horizon: BP reaches $4.5bn settlement with US
Added: 16 Nov 2012
London - BP is to pay fines of $4.5 billion and plead guilty to criminal charges in a deal with the…

UK energy research receives funding boost
Added: 13 Nov 2012
One of the Research Councils’ biggest investments in research to support energy efficiency policy a…

Auditor slams Sellafield clean-up projects
Added: 9 Nov 2012
London – Decommissioning work at Sellafield, the UK’s largest and most hazardous nuclear site, has …

Environmentalists urged to support Thames Supersewer
Added: 8 Nov 2012
London – A US wastewater expert has urged London to embrace the Thames Tunnel as the only solution…

Corac deal to advance gas-pressure electricity technology
Added: 7 Nov 2012
London `- Corac Energy Technologies (CET) has signed a deal with corporate partners in the UK and U…

Euro6m grant for fuel cell project at Industrial Chemicals
Added: 7 Nov 2012
London – Industrial fuel cell power company AFC Energy and Industrial Chemicals Ltd (ICL) have earn…
